Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character. " In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.
As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.