I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it. The Blind Owl
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. The Winter of Our Discontent
Scientific truth is characterized by its exactness and the certainty of its predictions. But these admirable qualities are contrived by science at the cost of remaining on a plane of secondary problems. leaving intact the ultimate and decisive questions. … Yet science is but a small part of the human mind and organism. Where it stops, man does not stop. History as a System
Thus, Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean societies had the misfortune to arise in an ecologically fragile environment. They committed ecological suicide by destroying their own resource base. Guns, Germs And Steel
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