Week 10

"The impulse to avoid harm, which gives trolley ponderers the willies when they consider throwing a man off a bridge, can also be found in rhesus monkeys, who go hungry rather than pull a chain that delivers food to them and a shock to another monkey" - Steven Pinker

Week 9

"There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious" - Robert Heinlein

Week 8

"I should have stayed in camp that morning--but I didn't. I felt a strong subconscious urge to go with Tom, and I obeyed it." - Donald C. Johanson

Week 7

"The bombs were used against Japan. That had been foreseen and in principle approved by Roosevelt and Churchill when they met in Canada and again in Hyde Park." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Week 5

"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive . In the middle category, however--that of the unnecessary but
undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc.--they could perfectly well have
central heating, subway trains, washing machines, and all kinds of marvelous devices
not yet invented here, floating light-sources, fuelless power, a cure for the common cold." - Ursula Le Guin

Week 4

"The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence." - Donna J. Haraway

Week 3

"And that's the way it went. But finally, by much liquor and more perspiration, I got some of the story out of him before I gave him an anytal and put him to bed. Then I hunted up Helen and dug the rest of the story from her, until it made sense." - Lester del Rey