We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

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

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

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

That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.