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- Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
- Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
- Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
- Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen…
- Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by…
- Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes…
- We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the…
- Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
- How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds
- We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for…
- Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
- It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with…
- If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,…
- Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking…
- The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the…
- After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be…
- Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
- Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
- What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…
- We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up…
- It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy…
- The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
- Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,…
- You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so…
- You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour