When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning, or changes for the worse.
Julian BagginiNo one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
Julian BagginiWellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
Julian BagginiI think that internet technologies are making everything so transparent. The arms race of deception and spin against the public trying to keep up with it - I think the forces of spin have to lose. In the corporate world people are finding this. Corporate social responsibility has been on the agenda for a very long time - and a lot of people say it's a kind of green-wash or white-wash - but because there's nowhere to hide anymore, people are coming around to the realization that the only way to be seen to be good is to be good. You can't fake it.
Julian Baggini