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

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

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

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

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

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

" Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "