The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?