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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.
Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.
You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.
Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.
I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.
People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.
My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.
There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.
Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.
I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.
The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.
A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.
In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'
One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.
The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.