God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

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