We Are The First Species To Have

The Brain Is Like A Muscle. When It Is In Use We Feel Very Good. Understanding Is Joyous.

Whenever Our Ethnic Or National Prejudices Are Aroused, In Times Of Scarcity, During Challenges To National Self Esteem Or Nerve, When We Agonize About Our Diminished Cosmic Place And Purpose, Or When Fanaticism Is Bubbling Up Around Us - Then, Habits Of Thought Familiar From Ages Past Reach For The Controls.

Ours Is The First Generation That Has Grown Up With Science-fiction Ideas.

What An Astonishing Thing A Book Is.

I Worry That, Especially As The Millennium Edges Nearer, Pseudo-science And Superstition Will Seem Year By Year More Tempting, The Siren Song Of Unreason More Sonorous And Attractive.