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How can anyone expect the United States to consistently combat global threats like infectious disease, climate change, and new life-altering technologies when another headlong dive into “America First” might be right around the corner?


“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

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