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.
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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.
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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.
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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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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.
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