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Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

— Michael Crichton

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We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another.

Hence the familiar ideas continue to be repeated, long past their demonstrable validity.

I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

This polarization of the issues has contributed greatly to our national paralysis, because it posits false choices which stifle debate essential to change.

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