Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
People think I’m a Simpsons character.
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Being confined to a wheelchair doesn’t bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.
Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe that if you can design them on a computer, you should be able to print them out.
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.
Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space.
Exploration by real people inspires us.
Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
You cannot predict the future.
More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.
Science makes god unnecessary.
What is important is that we have the ability to create.
Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can’t regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.
There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.