"On Human Nature" Quotes

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

The genetic evolution of humans, primed by the same forces that allowed other animals to flourish, is now turning against the rest of life.

We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity by any abstract principle. We are compelled by the weight of the evidence.

The brain is exquisitely designed to learn and remember. But it is also designed to harbor a universe of illusions.