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" It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. "

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" The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet. "

" The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers. "

" I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas. "

" The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. "

" The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. "

" Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. "

" The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. "

" The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. "

" We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods. "

" A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. "

" It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe. "

" You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? "

" Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. "

" Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. "

" Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. "

" The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. "

" It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. "

" If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. "

" I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. "

" Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. "

" The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. "

" Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. "

" The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. "

" I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live. "

" The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. "

" I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done. "

" Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. "

" The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. "

" I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. "

" Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. "