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 an….

The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful..

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long..

Only nuclear power can now halt global warming..

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job..

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples..

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do..

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 d….

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other word….

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA..

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have t….

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I ….

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. ….

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history..

Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate….

We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war ….

I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but ….

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes..

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel..

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book ….

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to….