Social control is best managed through fear.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

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

Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.