But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.