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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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 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 world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. "

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

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

" 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 am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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