We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.
Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own.
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity.
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.
No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond.
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.
A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.
If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.
