Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

I don't have wings, but I believe I can fly and touch the sky.

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.