Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.