- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
- Childbirth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
- Biotechnology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020