Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

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?

I was in love once and I am in love now… but luckily with the same person

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know but in a much more complicated manner.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

Another reform, involves new screening tests for all applicants that include, and this is so important, especially if you get the right people. And we will get the right people.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.

Faith is the yes of the heart.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.