Also, this from his summary of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”:
Humanity isn’t an end, it’s a fork in the road, and you have two options: “Animal” and “Superman”. For some reason, people keep going left, the easy way, the way back to where we came from. Fuck ’em. Other people just stand there, staring at the signposts, as if they’re going to come alive and tell them what to do or something. Dude, the sign says fucking “SUPERMAN”. How much more of a clue do these assholes want?
Even a few years of delay can make a big difference if you are in the middle of a major war. If Galston hadn’t published his results and they weren’t found until a decade or two later, the US probably wouldn’t have used Agent Orange in Vietnam. Similarly with chlorine gas in WWI, atomic bombs in WWII, etc. Granted, delaying the invention doesn’t necessarily make the overall outcome better. If the atomic bomb wasn’t invented until the 1950s and we didn’t have the examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then the US or USSR would probably have been more likely to use them against each other.