124 Quotes by James Lovelock

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

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 don't know it.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.

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

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.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.