As The Ancient Myth Makers

In The Deepest Sense The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is A Search For Ourselves.

The Library Connects Us With The Insight And Knowledge, Painfully Extracted From Nature, Of The Greatest Minds That Ever Were, With The Best Teachers, Drawn From The Entire Planet And From All Our History, To Instruct Us Without Tiring, And To Inspire Us To Make Our Own Contribution To The Collective Knowledge Of The Human Species.

Our Intelligence Is Imperfect, Surely, And Newly Arisen; The Ease With Which It Can Be Sweet-talked, Overwhelmed, Or Subverted By Other Hardwired Propensities - Sometimes Themselves Disguised As The Cool Light Of Reason - Is Worrisome.

How Smart Does A Chimpanzee Have To Be Before Killing Him Constitutes Murder?

We Go About Our Daily Lives Understanding Almost Nothing Of The World.