Andrew Gerber

“Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity … tempered by humility, disciplined with patience. Science”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Darwinia

“And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“My feeling is that until the number of whole lives is greater than the number of shattered lives, we remain stuck in some kind of prehistory, unworthy of humanity’s great spirit.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

“economist Friedrich Hayek observed, “If old truths are to retain their hold on men’s minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress