Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.