“Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have acc...” — Ian Tattersall Quote

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

The lure of the marvelous blunts our critical faculties.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

Machine Man faithfully believes that conscious intelligent life came by chance from unconscious, dumb and dead matter that nobody suddenly made out of nothing for no reasons at all.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.