We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or co...
What were you going to make for Christmas dinner?” one of my older children asked in a very reasonable tone. I cleared my throat, but couldn’t speak. There was no real explanation for my behavior. I’d been so intent on getting through this firs...
People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action. All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted i...
Burke's admonition--"The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations"--never seems to have occurred to Hayek. The Arnoldian ideal of the disint...
[Sulley's alarm clock clicks, and Mike impersonates the radio announcer] Mike: Hey, good morning, Monstropolis. It's now five after the hour of 6:00 A.M. in the big monster city. Temperature's a balmy 65 degrees, which is good news for you reptiles, ...
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen.
Even 'something' needs 'nothing' in order to be something.
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.
Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.
The order you seek is the chaos you feel.
We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.
I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
