Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.
Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.
The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?