By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

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

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

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.