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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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"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."
"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."
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
"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."
"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."
"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."
"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."
"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."
"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."
"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
"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."
"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
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