Evolution extracts a price. What is the price? Sickness, old age, and death; tragedy, hunger, sorrow, pain, and suffering—all these must exist in order for evolution to operate. Without death there ca...
Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.
Dr. Kelly, are you familiar with the term, ‘cabinet of curiosities’? Nora wondered at the man’s ability to pile on non sequiturs. Wasn’t it a kind of natural history collection? Precisely. It was the...
Don’t live in the past—you will know what you’ve lost but not what you’ve found?
Do you know, I’ve always believed there’s no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that’s all.
Diamond writes: We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their attention was evidently focused on their shor...
Are you surprised? He doesn’t believe in any power greater than himself. And we all know he’s God-like anyway—in his own mind, at least.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, told our team bluntly that, by going into the jungle and getting leishmaniasis, You got a really cold j...
An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this: Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne’er be found again.
A humane research environment for chimpanzees is very, very expensive. I’m sure Miller would have been much happier if we’d locked all the chimps in four-by-five cages. When we lost our funding, we ha...
To authorize that personally.
Make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.
William Duncan Strong was a scholar, a man ahead of his time: quiet, careful and meticulous in his work, averse to spectacle and publicity. He was among the first to establish that Mosquitia had been...
What you’re suggesting is that Hezekiah’s elixir caused epigenetic changes. Such changes can and do get passed down the generations. Environmental poisons are the leading cause of epigenetic changes.
What was it Voltaire said? To the living we owe respect, but to the dead only truth. I honor Hugo’s memory by telling the truth about him.
What was Hugo like? Physically, you mean? During the Jennie years he was a lean, bony man. His hair was black and unfashionably long. He had dark eye sockets in which lived two restless black eyes. My...
We live in a world gone crazy for resources. Everybody on Google Earth can look at this place now. If you don’t move to protect it, it will disappear. Everything in the world is vulnerable.
We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their attention was evidently focused on their short-term concerns...
Vernon
To put that statistic into personal terms, make a list of the nineteen people closest to you: All but one will die. (This