I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

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

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.