Sentimentality About Nature Denatures Everything It Touches.

We've Got A [canadian] Prime Minister Who Seems To Be Intent On Destroying Our Health System And Education System. But I Have Gotten A Thicker Skin. I Can Get Angry About These Things Without Feeling Like Vomiting, If You Know What I Mean.

I Was So Grateful To Be Independent Of The Academic Establishment. I Thought, How Awful It Would Be To Have My Future Hinge On Such People And Such Decisions.

Innovating Economies Expand And Develop. Economies That Do Not Add New Kinds Of Goods And Services, But Continue Only To Repeat Old Work, Do Not Expand Much Nor Do They, By Definition, Develop.

It May Be That We Have Become So Feckless As A People That We No Longer Care How Things Do Work, But Only What Kind Of Quick, Easy Outer Impression They Give. If So, There Is Little Hope For Our Cities Or Probably For Much Else In Our Society. But I Do Not Think This Is So.

To Science, Not Even The Bark Of A Tree Or A Drop Of Pond Water Is Dull Or A Handful Of Dirt Banal. They All Arouse Awe And Wonder.