We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

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

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

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

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

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

A man with no imagination can never inspire others.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

Dying would have been so much easier.

It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.