There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

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

We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.