Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.