Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don’t assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one — until you can show it...
He approached the great glass barrier dividing the room, and the speaker at the end of the table. Cyclops? he whispered, stepping closer, clearing his tight throat, Cyclops, it's me, Gordon. The glow...
Why is the future always … in the future?
Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunch break from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. Some younger scientists claim...
It was called ‘the Big Lie’ technique, Johnny. Just sound like you know what you’re talking about—as if you’re citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory...
The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.
Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any "greates...
Today you meet more folks than your ancestors could imagine … some in passing. Some for a crucial instant. Others for tangled decades. Biology can’t keep up. Our overworked temporal lobes cannot know...
Give up, they preached. Don’t bother trying to figure out how the flawed world works. Perfect knowledge is to be found only within the mind, the soul. Seek your own private salvation then, apart from...
The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
The village is coming back, like it or not.
New astronomy also had to adjust to the idea that what their senses told them everyday was untrue – that the world did not revolve around them alone.
There were few worse criminals on any world than the engineer who blithely and knowingly hands over to a tyrant the tools of oppression.
The radicals are right about that. Diversity is the key. But it need not be the same diversity as existed before mankind. Indeed, it cannot be the same. We are in a time of changes. Species will pass...
The towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.
Science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
It wasn’t his place to judge the women. Theirs was the harder job, here in the wilderness. His tasks were simple—to hunt, fight, and if need be, to die. Theirs was to go on, whatever it took.
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about...
One of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.
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