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“From time to time I have wished to do more work in philosophy of religion, but the demands and challenges have been such that it needed more work than I had time for. I sneaked a chapter into my book on loyalty that touched on some issues in the area. Maybe in the future I will try responding to Philip Kitcher's excellent critique: Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism - it gets closer to me than much of what is produced in the field.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“There are no miracles in agricultural production.”
Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
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“If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings is, then your focus must shift. No longer will you be satisfied with mechanical, physiological, neurological accounts. For this inquiry will require you to observe closely what human beings feel, sing, think, write and say to one another.”
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“I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.”
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“We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.”
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“We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.”
Source : Interview with Pierre van Paassen, The Toronto Daily Star, July 24, 1936.
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“The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.”
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“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”
