“Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?”

The quantity of anthropological data discovered by scientists now exceeds any individual’s ability to assimilate it. The division of labor, including intellectual labor, begun thirty thousand years ago in the Paleolithic, has become an irreversible phenomenon, and there is nothing that can be done about it. Like it or not, we have placed our destiny in the hands of the experts. A politician is, after all, a kind of expert, if self-styled. Even the fact that competent experts must serve under politicians of mediocre intelligence and little foresight is a problem that we are stuck with, because the experts themselves cannot agree on any major world issue. A logocracy of quarreling experts might be no better than the rule of the mediocrities to which we are subject. The declining intellectual quality of political leadership is the result of the growing complexity of the world. Since no one, be he endowed with the highest wisdom, can grasp it in its entirety, it is those who are least bothered by this who strive for power.
One Human Minute (1986)

Source: Big Planet (1957), Chapter 8 “A Matter of Vitamins” (p. 80)

Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci, p. 29.
1990s
Context: Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set. But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. Therefore, these budding young chemists don't get a chance to do anything engrossing with their chemistry sets. As I look back, I think it is pretty remarkable that Mr. Ziegler, this friend of the family, would have so easily turned over one-third of an ounce of potassium cyanide to me, an eleven-year-old boy.

Brain

Lyrics, Misc.

"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/257552283850653696, quoted in * 2019-10-26 Jeva Lange The 65 worst Trump tweets of the 2010s TheWeek.com https://theweek.com/articles/870368/65-worst-trump-tweets-2010s<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Donald Trump / Quotes / Donald Trump on social media / Twitter <br class="br">2010s, 2012

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996), p.45 as cited in: Gert Korthof (1998) &quot;Kauffman at home in the Universe: The secret of life is auto-catalysis&quot;. Book review, 20 Oct 1998 ( online http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/kortho32.htm)

Section 12 : Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy Pt. 3
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)