The World Motivation
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
“No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.”
— Carl Sagan · Beings
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing critics and evading responsibility - for incompetence or worse. It generates an elite, a band of brothers in whom the national confidence can be reliably vested, unlike the great mass of citizenry on whose behalf the information is presumably made secret in the first place. With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.