James Lovelock quotes
James Lovelock was a British scientist, inventor, and environmentalist, most famous for proposing the Gaia hypothesis. His work has significantly influenced modern environmental thinking and planetary science. He developed many scientific instruments and advocated for a holistic view of Earth as a self-regulating system. Here are 60 of his quotes:
If you were an artist or novelist, or a poet or somebody like that, nobody would think it odd if you worked in your own home. In science there's none of this at all. I'm almost the only independent scientist in Britain. Everybody else works in large institutions, universities, or industrial labs. Why should one expect scientists to work that way?
James Lovelock
Neither Lynn Margulis nor I have ever proposed a teleological hypothesis. Nowhere in our writing do we express the idea that planetary self-regulation is purposeful, or involves planetary foresight or planning by the biota. ...Yet we met persistent, almost dogmatic, criticism that our hypothesis is teleological.
James Lovelock
In Gaia, there's no such thing as pollution. The rules of the game are that any species that produces something noxious that affects the environment, is doomed. Imagine there's some green bug... that decides it would be a neat trick to make chlorine. That bug is not going to succeed. If it doesn't kill itself off, it will certainly kill off its progeny, and destroy the environment around it and have no food to eat.
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
Occupation: English Scientist
Born: July 26, 1919
Died: July 26, 2022
Quotes count: 60
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