Physicist Lawrence Krauss, as a prelude to a recent essay that he wrote for New Humanist, paired an Albert Einstein observation with a tweet from Sarah Palin, and I thought the effect was striking. Here are the quotes:
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything, save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe” – Albert Einstein, 1946.
“Arrogant&naive2say man overpowers nature” – Sarah Palin, 2009, tweeting about the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change.
Prometheus Unbound 