The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.