Sometimes Women Scare The Hell Out Of

One May Even Suspect That There Is More To Reality Than Measurements Will Ever Reveal.

And Entertainment Has Nothing To Do With Reality. Entertainment Is Antithetical To Reality.

The Experience Of Climbing Kilimanjaro Affected Me So Powerfully That, For A Long Time Afterward, If I Caught Myself Saying, "i'm Not A Person Who Likes To Do That Activity, Eat That Food, Listen To That Music," I Would Automatically Go Out And Do What I Imagined I Didn't Like. Generally I Found I Was Wrong About Myself - I Liked What I Thought I Wouldn't Like. And Even If I Didn't Like The Particular Experience, I Learned I Liked Having New Experiences.

The Past History Of Human Belief Is A Cautionary Tale. We Have Killed Thousands Of Our Fellow Human Beings Because We Believed They Had Signed A Contract With The Devil, And Had Become Witches. We Still Kill More Than A Thousand People Each Year For Witchcraft. In My View, There Is Only One Hope For Humankind To Emerge From What Carl Sagan Called "the Demon-haunted World" Of Our Past. That Hope Is Science.

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.