“Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.” IfsHumansHeartSometimesJobsMovingCoursesNextCenturyEvolutionMoving ForwardWitnessUnfairHuman EvolutionFaint Of Heart Book:A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society Source: A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society
“For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.” Has BeensHumanityHellCenturyCrimeGreatnessBearsMysteriousWitnessFollyThrownMidstMelodyEchoesHarmoniousInsurrection Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.” WarEnoughWholeRealityDesireGivenDifferencesAnswersFantasyCenturyReturnDemandConceptsPaidTerrorNostalgiaRealizationWitnessSensibleReconciliationTransparentTwentieth CenturyTotalityActivateAppeasementMuttering Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard
“To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is a high probability we will witness the crackup of one of the most influential scientific paradigms of the 20th century, and the implications for policy and global politics could be staggering.” YearsHas BeensNextCenturyPolicyClimateFollowingDecadesDebateWitnessProbability20th CenturyInfluentialImplicationsParadigmStaggering Author:Ross McKitrick