One Of Life's Joys Was To Have

Reciprocal Accountability, Or Criticism [is] The Only Known Antidote To Error.

Self-righteous People Can Talk Themselves Into Forgetting They Are Part Of A Civilization. They Can Then Feed On That Culture, Bringing It Down. It's Happened Many Times In The Past. It Could Happen To Us.

One Of Life's Joys Was To Have Friends Who Gave You Reality Checks...who Would Call You On Your Crap Before It Rose So High You Drowned In It.

For All Its Beauty, Honesty, And Effectiveness At Improving The Human Condition, Science Demands A Terrible Price - That We Accept What Experiments Tell Us About The Universe, Whether We Like It Or Not. It's About Consensus And Teamwork And Respectful Critical Argument, Working With, And Through, Natural Law. It Requires That We Utter, Frequently, Those Hateful Words - 'i Might Be Wrong.'

Predicting Has A Spotty Record In Science Fiction. I've Had Some Failures. On The Other Hand, I Also Predicted The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The Rise Of Fundamentalist Islam... And I'm Not Happy To Be Right In All Of Those Cases