Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

James LovelockScientist · English · b. 1919
More from James Lovelock
Science QuotesWar Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. — Fredrik Bajer
  • Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. — Rebecca West
  • Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. — James Lovelock
  • We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. — James Lovelock
  • A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time. — James Lovelock
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026