I Was Raised With The Idea That

God Creates Dinosaurs, God Kills Dinosaurs, God Creates Man, Man Kills God, Man Brings Back Dinosaurs.

If You Gamble Long Enough, You'll Always Lose -- The Gambler Is Always Ruined.

In Our Modern Complex World, Fundamentalism Is Dangerous Because Of Its Rigidity And Its Imperviousness To Other Ideas.

I Eventually Realized That Direct Experience Is The Most Valuable Experience I Can Have. Western Man Is So Surrounded By Ideas, So Bombarded With Opinions, Concepts, And Information Structures Of All Sorts, That It Becomes Difficult To Experience Anything Without The Intervening Filter Of These Structures.

The Planet Has Survived Everything, In Its Time. It Will Certainly Survive Us.