It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since