"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now."
-James Lovelock
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"Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.“
-James Lovelock
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"I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith."
-James Lovelock
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"Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards."
-James Lovelock
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"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
-James Lovelock
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"The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power."
-James Lovelock
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"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
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-Albert Einstein
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