Absence of proof is not proof of absence
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is ...
What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset...
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the ...
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That beh...
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be ...
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
