Ph.D Student, Stony Brook University
Department of Political Science"In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness." - Carl Sagan
"Nature lays her commands on every animal, and the brute obeys her voice. Man receives the same impulsion, but at the same time knows himself at liberty to acquiesce or resist: and it is particularly in his consciousness of this liberty that the spirituality of his soul is displayed." - Rousseau
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Darwin
"According to Buddhist reflection, passion is an instinctual, emotive force arising from the unconscious and deeply rooted in the body. When it becomes entwined with egocentric human calculations, it becomes distorted and causes havoc in our lives." - Shinran