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

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.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

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

The essential fact which emerges … is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

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