I Think It's A Big

Have Felt It Myself. The Glitter Of Nuclear Weapons. It Is Irresistible If You Come To Them As A Scientist. To Feel It's There In Your Hands, To Release This Energy That Fuels The Stars, To Let It Do Your Bidding. To Perform These Miracles, To Lift A Million Tons Of Rock Into The Sky. It Is Something That Gives People An Illusion Of Illimitable Power And It Is, In Some Ways, Responsible For All Our Troubles - This, What You Might Call Technical Arrogance, That Overcomes People When They See What They Can Do With Their Minds.

The Thing That Makes Me Most Optimistic Is China And India - Both Of Them Doing Well. It's Amazing How Much Progress There's Been In China, And Also India. Those Are The Places That Really Matter - They're Half Of The World's Population. They're The Places Where Things Are Enormously Better Now Than They Were 50 Years Ago. And I Don't See Anything That's Going To Stop That.

I Think It's Much Better To Have Your Eyes Open, But On The Other Hand, Of Course It Can Do Harm If You Tell People Look, There's All These Terrible Things You Can Do And Then Some Idiot May Go Ahead And Do It.

Science Is A Human Activity, And The Best Way To Understand It Is To Understand The Individual Human Beings Who Practise It. Science Is An Art Form And Not A Philosophical Method. The Great Advances In Science Usually Result From New Tools Rather Than From New Doctrines. ... Every Time We Introduce A New Tool, It Always Leads To New And Unexpected Discoveries, Because Nature's Imagination Is Richer Than Ours.

Computer Models Of The Climate....[are] A Very Dubious Business If You Don't Have Good Inputs.