Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

The Purpose Of History Is To Explain The Present - To Say Why The World Around Us Is The Way It Is. History Tells Us What Is Important In Our World, And How It Came To Be. It Tells Us What Is To Be Ignored, Or Discarded. That Is True Power - Profound Power. The Power To Define A Whole Society.

In Science, The Old Men Are Usually Wrong. But In Politics, The Old Men Are Wise, Counsel Caution, And In The End Are Often Right.

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.

Reality Is Always Greater - Much Greater - Than What We Know, Than Whatever We Can Say About It.

...scientific Power Is Like Inherited Wealth: Attained Without Discipline. You Read What Others Have Done, And You Take The Next Step. You Can Do It Very Young...there Is No Mastery, Old Scientists Are Ignored. There Is No Humility Before Nature...its A Form Of Inherited Wealth. And You Know What Assholes Congenitally Rich People Are.