Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so knowledge remains better than ignorance.
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget from developing it to implementing it to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
In November they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely it was after all the center for interrogations for Iraq.
In the fight against terrorism national agencies keep full control over their police forces security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
In these troubled uncertain times we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary I am the organizer I am the maid and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.