When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later.
Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.
Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.