Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.