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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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"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."
"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."
"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."
"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 suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all."
"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."
"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."
"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
"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."
"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."
"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
"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."
"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it."
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