Politicians Don't Like To Face Unpleasant Realities.

The World Has Shown That If You Provide Capital And Expertise To An Area That Is Starved For Capital And Expertise, Really Good Things Will Happen.

Within Nasa, The Shuttle Is Perhaps The Least-groundbreaking Project. Recall That Apollo Was About Creating Brand-new Technologies That Did Something Unprecedented - Putting Men On The Moon. The Shuttle Is, By Comparison, A Relic Designed To Make Going Into Orbit Routine.

Elections, For Their Part, Are Typically Popularity Contests Rather Than Measures Of Candidates' Relative Competency Or Effectiveness. Imagine If Scientific Truth Were Determined According To Which Scientist Was Most Popular. To Be Successful, Scientists Would Have To Be Charismatic And Attractive - And Human Knowledge Would Suffer Terribly.

There's No Way I'm Going To Stand Up For Bad Ingredients. We Love Seasonal Ingredients. It's A False Dichotomy To Say That Modern Cooking Is At Odds With That, But Some People Want To Have A Great Ingredient And No Technique.

I Think That There Is A Role For Food To Be Art; And When Food Is Art, It Can Have Drama, It Can Have Spectacle, It Can Be Theatrical. It Can Be This Amazing Experience.