I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

We are all made up of star stuff.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.