The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.