The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we l….

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can scr….

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really ….

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends..

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You a….

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government..

None of us know our real names..

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us..

The command to be free is a double bind.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you)..

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation..

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream..

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening..

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again..

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too ….

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead..

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last….

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us..