There Is So Much Noise On The

As Heinz Pagels Has Said, The Challenge To Our Civilization Which Has Come From Our Knowledge Of The Cosmic Energies That Fuels The Stars, The Movement Of Light And Electrons Through Matter, The Intricate Molecular Order Which Is The Biological Basis Of Life, Must Be Met By The Creation Of A Moral And Political Order Which Will Accommodate These Forces Or We Shall Be Destroyed. It Will Try Our Deepest Resources Of Reason And Compassion.

If You Could Meet Your Grandkids As Elderly Citizens In The Year 2100 … You Would View Them As Being, Basically, Greek Gods… That's Where We're Headed.

Until Computers And Robots Make Quantum Advances, They Basically Remain Adding Machines: Capable Only Of Doing Things In Which All The Variables Are Controlled And Predictable. Robots Are Bad At Pattern Recognition And Certainly At Common Sense. That's Why Computers Can Beat Humans In Chess But Can't Have Even A Basic Conversation With A Six-year-old.

We Need An Enduring, Robust Theory Of Education. Now, It Seems Education Careens From One Fad To Another And Often Back Again. I Think That With Better Education And Students Willing To Put In The 10,000-hours To Become Expert, We Could Develop Better Science Professionals, Even Theoretical Physicists.

We've Done A Miserable Job Of Preparing People For Today's World, Let Alone Tomorrow's.