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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

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

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

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

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

Computer models of the climate ... [are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Committees do harm merely by existing.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

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?

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

Scientists who become icons must not only be geniuses but also performers, playing to the crowd and enjoying public acclaim.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

CO2 is so beneficial ... it would be crazy to try to reduce it

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

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

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

I have the freedom to do what I want ... bright people to talk to every day.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

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.