Birth: November 14, 1948
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle….
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, bu….
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages..
There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, whic….
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have….
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolut….
If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolu….
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat ….
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated..
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes withou….