I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the first time in the history of the world had more information in its brains than in its genes. It was an early reptile which, were we to come upon it in these sophisticated times, we would probably not describe as exceptionally intelligent… Much of the history of life since the Carboniferous Period can be described as the gradual (and certainly incomplete) dominance of brains over genes.

If only cruel people could understand that their cruelty affects our reality in myriad ways

We humans are so Cruel that Cruelty would itself Shudder at the name "Human Beings"

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.