What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

Knowledge is the consequence of time and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature career and consequences of human values.

Well the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent regardless of the consequences of doing it.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943 both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

As this body of knowledge has evolved a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another.

The truth is often terrifying which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful beautiful story.

Here's the teaching point if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.