Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems th….

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated..

There is never only ONE of anything in nature..

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a poin….

But I could be wrong..

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting so….

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of off….

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct..

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being ….

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself..

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance..

A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a gal….

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out,….

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition..

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st..

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient..

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous..

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has th….

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang..

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent..

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (….