To Apply General Tools To Specific Problems

Do You Want To Understand How To Swim, Or Do You Want To Jump In And Start Swimming? Only People Who Are Afraid Of The Water Want To Understand It. Other People Jump In And Get Wet.

In Any Case, You Read With Exasperation Or Amusement The Multiple Errors In A Story-and Then Turn The Page To National Or International Affairs, And Read With Renewed Interest As If The Rest Of The Newspaper Was Somehow More Accurate About Far-off Palestine Than It Was About The Story You Just Read. You Turn The Page, And Forget What You Know.

The Past History Of Human Belief Is A Cautionary Tale. We Have Killed Thousands Of Our Fellow Human Beings Because We Believed They Had Signed A Contract With The Devil, And Had Become Witches. We Still Kill More Than A Thousand People Each Year For Witchcraft. In My View, There Is Only One Hope For Humankind To Emerge From What Carl Sagan Called "the Demon-haunted World" Of Our Past. That Hope Is Science.

There Is Always A Cause For Fear. The Cause May Change Over Time, But The Fear Is Always With Us.

Like All Trial Attorneys, He Knew The Importance Of Not Dressing Too Well.