It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.
I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.