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There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that how science is practiced actually makes a difference in their lives. If evidence becomes optional, if ideological assertions or beliefs are just as good as scientifically vetted evidence, then their quality of life suffers. I think that's dawning on people. There's a level of concern unlike anything I've seen.
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Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
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I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages
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What engenders hatred towards the Sharia? When people find their basic needs are not being met, then people just see it as unfair.
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I think that one of the things that my dad was grappling with towards the end was how that shift had happened now and he would go on a book tour and do his shows and it would be you know fulfilling and good, but he wouldn't have the same impact that he used to and it wasn't because people were less interested. It's just because people are distracted by the million different sources of entertainment and information in front of them at any given time.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
