Like all sciences and all valuations the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit instigate brutal life and death struggles destroy a society's tolerance and humanity and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
However I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
Sciences may be learned by rote but wisdom not.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines soldiers buddies. I'm not naive and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Remember as long as you live that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
The time I trust will come perhaps within the lives of some of us when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised when its nomenclature will be fixed and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
I read everything: fiction history science mathematics biography travel.
When it's time for me to walk away from something I walk away from it. My mind my body my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment caused by nature or the universe or technology what readers want to see is how people cope and so the character are present to cope or fail to cope.
You can't stop technology or science and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that hey this is interesting but maybe I could do something here too.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian The National Institutes of Health and numerous colleges and universities mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that if used for military purposes they can wipe out our entire civilization.