In The 1970s, I Think That There

We Are Living In A Society That Is Totally Dependent On Science And High Technology, And Yet Most Of Us Are Effectively Alienated And Excluded From Its Workings, From The Values Of Science, The Methods Of Science, And The Language Of Science. A Good Place To Start Would Be For As Many Of Us As Possible To Begin To Understand The Decision-making And The Basis For Those Decisions, And To Act Independently And Not Be Manipulated Into Thinking One Thing Or Another, But To Learn How To Think. That's What Science Does.

We May Be Living At That Moment, On The Cusp, When We Go From Being A Species That Feels A Kind Of Loneliness In The Cosmos To Actually One Sometime In The Not Too Distant Future Being Able To Confirm The Existence Of Other Intelligent Life.

Well, I Actually Grew Up In The Sixties. I Feel Very Lucky, Actually, That That Was My Slice Of Time That I Was Dealt. Let's Remember That The Real Motivation In The Sixties, And Even In The Fifties, Was The Cold War.

The Only Gratification That Science Denies To Us Is Deception.

If You Have A Beating Heart, That's Good Enough.