Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov

I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer, too, isn't it?

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

It's one thing to predict [the complete breakdown of civilization]. It's something else again to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing...for an academic like me to find his abstract theories turning into concrete reality... It was all just so many words to me, really, just a philosophical exercise, completely abstract.