It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.