By The Way, Most Of The Light

I Often Reflect On What An Extraordinary Time (pun Intended) It Is To Be Alive Here In The Beginning Of The Twenty-first Century. It Took Life Billions Of Years To Get To This Point. It Took Humans Thousands Of Years To Piece Together A Meaningful Understanding Of Our Cosmos, Our Planet And Ourselves. Think How Fortunate We Are To Know This Much. But Think Also Of All That's Yet To Be Discovered. Here's Hoping The Deep Answers To The Deep Questions-from The Nature Of Consciousness To The Origin Of Life-will Be Found In Not Too Much More Time.

I Meet So Many People Who Are Intimidated By Arithmetic.

If We Raise A Generation Of Students Who Dont Believe In The Process Of Science, Who Think Everything That Weve Come To Know About Nature And The Universe Can Be Dismissed By A Few Sentences Translated Into English From Some Ancient Text, Youre Not Going To Continue To Innovate.

America Has Had Many Other Discoverers Besides Columbus, But He Seems To Have Made More Satisfactory Arrangements With The Historians Than Any Of The Others.

There Are Two Ways To Be Rich: To Have More Or Need Less. It's Estimated That We Squander About 30 Percent Of Our Energy Leaving The Lights On, The Refrigerator Door Open, And So On. Then There Is The Enormous Amount Of Food That We Expend Huge Amounts Of Energy To Raise And Then Throw Away.