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The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.
We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.
The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.
If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.
As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.
I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.
There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.
I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.
Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.
People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.
If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.
When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.
I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.
Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.
It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.
When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.
The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.
Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.
Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.
Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.
There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.
Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.