purpose of model-building in the realm of the future is not to predit, but only to draw a rough sketch of the territory into which we might be moving. - Freeman Dyson

The debacle of European pacifism has at least one clear lesson to teach us: pacifists, if they are to be effective in the modern world, must be as wholehearted and as brave as Gandhi.

I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.

كلما فحصت الكون ودرستُ تفاصيل هندسته, كلما عثرت على دليل بأن الكون كان يعرف بطريقة ما أننا قادمون.