Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used |
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used |
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used |
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used |
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used |
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. |
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. |
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. |
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. |
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense |
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. |
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. |
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. |
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. |
The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. |