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

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" Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. "

" It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. "

" 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? "

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

" It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. "

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

" 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. "

" Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to. "

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

" What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. "

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

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" Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. "

" The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models. "

" The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. "

" 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. "