Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

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

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

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

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.