In Order Not To Be Misunderstood, I

All Your Life People Will Tell You Things. And Most Of The Time, Probably Ninety-five Percent Of The Time, What They'll Tell You Will Be Wrong.

Scientific Research Was Much Like Prospecting: You Went Out And You Hunted, Armed With Your Maps And Instruments, But In The Ened Your Preparations Did Not Matter, Or Even Your Intuition. You Needed Your Luck, And Whatever Benefits Accrued To The Diligent, Through Sheer, Grinding Hard Work.

False Fears Are A Plague, A Modern Plague!

In Science, The Old Men Are Usually Wrong. But In Politics, The Old Men Are Wise, Counsel Caution, And In The End Are Often Right.

The Romantic View Of The Natural World As A Blissful Eden Is Only Held By People Who Have No Actual Experience Of Nature. People Who Live In Nature Are Not Romantic About It At All. They May Hold Spiritual Beliefs About The World Around Them, They May Have A Sense Of The Unity Of Nature Or The Aliveness Of All Things, But They Still Kill The Animals And Uproot The Plants In Order To Eat, To Live. If They Don't, They Will Die.