I Am Certain There Is Too Much

The Purpose Of History Is To Explain The Present - To Say Why The World Around Us Is The Way It Is. History Tells Us What Is Important In Our World, And How It Came To Be. It Tells Us What Is To Be Ignored, Or Discarded. That Is True Power - Profound Power. The Power To Define A Whole Society.

In A Media-saturated World, Persistent Hype Lends Unwarranted Credulity To The Wildest Claims.

We Need To Get Environmentalism Out Of The Sphere Of Religion. We Need To Stop The Mythic Fantasies, And We Need To Stop The Doomsday Predictions. We Need To Start Doing Hard Science Instead.

This Fascination With Computer Models Is Something I Understand Very Well. Richard Feynmann Called It A Disease. I Fear He Is Right.

I Am Certain There Is Too Much Certainty In The World.