One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment – in the path of enlightenment – in the path of humanitarian glory.