Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

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.

I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.