I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.
Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very ...
Robert Graysmith: I knew it! "Man is the most dangerous animal of all." I knew that I heard that from somewhere before. "The Most Dangerous Game." Paul Avery: The most what? Robert Graysmith: It's a movie about a count who hunts people for sport. Peo...
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.
We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.
There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
