To Leave The World Better Than You

Science Is A Part Of Everyone's Everyday Life.

We Should Educate More Women And Girls. Because That Is The Surest Route To Controllably, Manageably Reducing The Human Population. Educated Women Have Fewer Kids. And The Kids They Do Have Are Better Cared For And Are More Successful. As I Like To Say, It's Not One Thing That We Need To Focus On. It's Everything All At Once.

Speaking Of Human Computers, There Is A Guy Named Art Benjamin, He's A Human Calculator. He Says It's A Skill He Learned As A Kid. Now He's A Math Professor At Harvey Mudd. He Can Find The Square Root Of A Six Digit Number In A Few Seconds. Practice.

If You Decide To Become A Dancer On Broadway, Never Say Who Your Favorite Dance Partner Is, Because Members Of The Media Will Presume You Never Want To Dance With Anybody Else.

We Are Special In The Sense That We Can Know Our Place In The Cosmos. We Can Know Our Place In Space. We Are At Least One Of The Cosmos's Ways Of Knowing Itself. That Fills Me With Reverence And Joy. Another Insight I Really Want People To Consider Is This: Everyone Has Gotten This Far. Everyone You Meet Has Made It This Far. Nobody Is Superior To Anyone Else From An Evolutionary Standpoint.