The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.

Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.