A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers and at its worst an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.