One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.