The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.