And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Everything in my life was luck.

There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.