Quote by James Lovelock
One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can nev

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You dont know it. – James Lovelock

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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. – James Lovelock

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There arent just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. Its our evolutionary history. – James Lovelock

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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. – Anne Lamott

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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. – George Dennison Prentice

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime. – Lawrence Kasdan

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