We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.

You are a child of love that has come here to live in love and to give away love.

A child is like a ship. One can never be too young to be steered to the right course.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.