Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen "Will" Gregory17 September 1959) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
animal empathy needs
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others—both human and animal.
stars vastness looks
Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?
song whales answers
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
firsts theory crank
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
mistake biggest-mistake
The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
suicide space risk
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.
giving-up people acting
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
technology magic
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
games losing clarity
If you are losing at a game, change the game.
doubt teach
Religions do not teach doubt.
pain ignorance everyday
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.
real matter wells
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
pleasure results made
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
tides details great-nations
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.