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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "