James Lovelock at the Science Museum
Published 17 months ago
Last night, James Lovelock gave a talk as part of ...
Last night, James Lovelock gave a talk as part of the Science Museum's centenary celebrations. One of the world's most renowned living scientists and the inventor of the now-famous Gaia Theory (earth system as living organism), I once interviewed Lovelock in conversation with Vivienne Westwood for Dazed (July 2009). After a half-hour talk mainly about his early inventions (pictured), the 90-year-old independent scientist took questions from the packed hall with virtuosic aplomb, dispatching typically controversial and thought-provoking oneliners to all-comers with a wink and a smile: 'Perhaps global warming is actually saving us from a new ice age?' [guitar solo], 'There are too many people doing science – it's a vocation, not a career' [pyrotechnics], and so on. If science is the new rock and roll, Jim Lovelock is its Led Zeppelin.
