“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot
“Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.”
― An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
― An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”
― Candide
― Candide
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