I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.
To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
