The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

Is evolution just another name for God?

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.