Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.