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"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."

"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."

"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."

"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."

"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."

"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."

"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."

"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."

"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average."

"I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty."

"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
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