Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

When life breaks you down, you have two choices. You can either leave the pieces on the floor... or you can rebuild yourself so that you’re stronger than before.

Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.

He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.

I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.