This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age – after a matter of ten or fifteen years – they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile." - John Kenneth Galbraith, aka "Ken"
"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. " - Jacques Cousteau, formally Hacques-Yves Cousteau, known as 'le Commandant Cousteau' or 'Captain Cousteau'
"Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness." - Stephan Jay Gould