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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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