In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Innovations never happen as planned.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Indeed there's a tiny portion of animal truly attached to man, the use of which needs a lot of restrain from, and by, the individual.