How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters..

When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possib….

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if….

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue..

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals..

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite ….

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself..

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody..

Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decis….

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge..

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they p….

Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fire….

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with on….

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed….

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid a….

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and bl….

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possi….

I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads….

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but ….

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism..