Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

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.

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.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.