“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.