Discovery, They Believe, Is Inevitable. So They

The Notion That The Natural World Obeys Its Own Rules And Doesn't Give A Damn About Your Expectations Comes As A Massive Shock. But The Natural World Is Not So Malleable. On The Contrary, It Will Demand That You Adapt To It - And If You Don't, You Die.

In Other Centuries, Human Beings Wanted To Be Saved, Or Improved, Or Freed, Or Educated. But In Our Century, They Want To Be Entertained. The Great Fear Is Not Of Disease Or Death, But Of Boredom. A Sense Of Time On Our Hands, A Sense Of Nothing To Do. A Sense That We Are Not Amused.

The Belief That There Are Other Life Forms In The Universe Is A Matter Of Faith. There Is Not A Single Shred Of Evidence For Any Other Life Forms, And In Forty Years Of Searching, None Has Been Discovered. There Is Absolutely No Evidentiary Reason To Maintain This Belief.

Environmentalism Needs To Be Absolutely Based In Objective And Verifiable Science, It Needs To Be Rational, And It Needs To Be Flexible. And It Needs To Be Apolitical. To Mix Environmental Concerns With The Frantic Fantasies That People Have About One Political Party Or Another Is To Miss The Cold Truth - That There Is Very Little Difference Between The Parties, Except A Difference In Pandering Rhetoric.

The Academic World Was Marching Toward Ever More Specialized Knowledge, Expressed In Ever More Dense Jargon.