"For a member to say, ‘I’m a lame duck’ violates political science 101." ― Charles Rangel Topic(s): Science More From Charles Rangel "I’m just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me." "If there’s no relationship with a father who’s absent, nobody talks about it." "Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere." More In Science "The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."― Edward de Bono "Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery."― Richard Powers "The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."― William Irwin Thompson