“"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.”
“A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.”
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