All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?