I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.
The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.
The future is uncertain. . . but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.
Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.
For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders.