Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.