"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."

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"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."

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"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."

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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."

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

Engineering

"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."

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"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."

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"A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time."

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