Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.