The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.