She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people stil...
I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in...
Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
I'm myself, not a label.
The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element o...
We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too cr...
Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind?
Intelligence and wisdom aren’t the same.
To travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged to be absolutely rational. Cruel, if you like. People of good will, tolerant,...
…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, .
I always wondered what democracy might smell like.
And that person might be Nickie Haflinger!
You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
Eight or nine men were present
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
My degrees are scholarates, not mere doctorates. I’ve always been very proud of that. Like surgeons over in Britain, taking offense at being called Dr. So-and -so. … But it’s irrelevant, it’s superflu...
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.