Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

To read is to voyage through time.