The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.
Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just sitting out on the ground? She figured it out just before she heard the dog's bark. Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped ...
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.