We Are One Of Only Three Species

Although Knowledge Of How Things Work Is Sufficient To Allow Manipulation Of Nature, What Humans Really Want To Know Is Why Things Work. Children Don't Ask How The Sky Is Blue. They Ask Why The Sky Is Blue.

All Major Changes Are Like Death. You Can't See To The Other Side Until You Are There.

Right Now, Scientists Are In Exactly The Same Position As Renaissance Painters, Commissioned To Make The Portrait The Patron Wants Done, And If They Are Smart, They'll Make Sure Their Work Subtly Flatters The Patron. Not Overtly. Subtly.

I Hadn't Traveled With The Intention Of Learning About Anything Except Myself. And The Real Point Of All This Travel Was Not What I Had Come To Believe Or Disbelieve About The Wider World, But What I Had Learned About Myself.

Story Of Our Species...everyone Knows It's Coming, But Not So Soon.