[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs. Today we can no longer make this assumption. Earth has become a space ship, not only in our imagination but also in the hard realities of the social, biological, and physical system in which man is enmeshed.