James Lovelock - Science Quotes

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Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science... I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

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