The Thing That Makes Me Most Optimistic

We Do Not Need To Have An Agreed Set Of Goals Before We Do Something Ambitious!

The Brain, Being Analog, Is Able To Grasp Images So Much Better. The Brain Is Just Designed For Comparing Images And Some Patterns - Patterns In Space And Patterns In Time - Which We Do Amazingly Well. Computers Can Do It, Too, But Not In Anything Like The Same Kind Of Flexibility.

When I Listen To The Public Debates About Climate Change, I Am Impressed By The Enormous Gaps In Our Knowledge, The Sparseness Of Our Observations And The Superficiality Of Our Theories.

Vegetation Is Really Controlling What Happens...whereas The Emphasis In The Climate Models Has Always Been On The Atmosphere.

For Some Days I Quietly Worked Out In My Own Mind The Metaphysics Of Cosmic Unity. The More I Thought About It, The More Convinced I Became That It Was The Living Truth. It Was Logically Incontrovertible. It Provided For The First Time A Firm Foundation For Ethics. It Offered Mankind The Radical Change Of Heart And Mind That Was Our Only Hope Of Peace At A Time Of Desperate Danger. Only One Small Problem Remained. I Must Find A Way To Convert The World To My Way Of Thinking.