We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour no 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle' because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think 'Ooh a movie star's birthday!' I just thought 'What?'
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi raise aphids as livestock launch armies into war use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves engage in child labour exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself...
We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn...
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is the wildest of...
The central task of science is to arrive stage by stage at a clearer...
I suggest that the introductory courses in science at all levels from grade...
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may...
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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most...
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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the...
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing...
And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the...
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...