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You can't make love to your fame. Even though some people try.
Emergencies in space can be as obvious as an explosion or as intangible as an equation, but their obviousness has nothing to do with how dangerous they are.
Science is many things, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
We choose the ways we enforce our religious beliefs in the behavior of daily life. This is true of all cultures. And we can choose new ways.
How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
True intimacy does not consist of sexual intercourse, which can be done with strangers and in a state of total alienation; intimacy consists of talking for hours about what is most important in one's life.
This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers: robber barons are not really very efficient.
Consciousness is just a thin lithosphere over a big hot core.
History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian!
Scientists can become as fanatical as anybody else, maybe more so; educations too narrowly focused, perhaps.
History is like some vast thing that is always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It is what happens when you aren't looking—an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, control everything.
That's a large part of what economics is—people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have.
Sometimes the beginning of a relationship determines how the rest of it will go.
Most ignorance is by choice, so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.
Mutual professional respect is a great maker of friendships.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
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