I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.