And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.

Our difficulties in understanding or effectuatingcommunication with other animals may arise from our reluctance to grasp unfamiliar ways of dealing with the world.

Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions are felt by animals that do not communicate with us?

Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.

Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions—say 10 percent—of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them.

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.