It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
