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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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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."

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

"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."

"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."

"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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