It Is Especially Difficult For Modern People

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.

We Live In A World Of Frightful Givens. It Is Given That You Will Behave Like This, Given That You Will Care About That. No One Thinks About The Givens. Isn't It Amazing? In The Information Society, Nobody Thinks. We Expected To Banish Paper, But We Actually Banished Thought.

Scientific Research Was Much Like Prospecting: You Went Out And You Hunted, Armed With Your Maps And Instruments, But In The Ened Your Preparations Did Not Matter, Or Even Your Intuition. You Needed Your Luck, And Whatever Benefits Accrued To The Diligent, Through Sheer, Grinding Hard Work.

Each Person Bears A Fear Which Is Special To Him. One Man Fears A Close Space And Another Man Fears Drowning; Each Laughs At The Other And Calls Him Stupid. Thus Fear Is Only A Preference, To Be Counted The Same As The Preference For One Woman Or Another, Or Mutton For Pig, Or Cabbage For Onion.

I Tended To Faint When I Saw Accident Victims In The Emergency Ward, During Surgery, Or While Drawing Blood.