“The contents of our mind are a product of our genes, our environment, ...” — William Von Hippel Quote

“The contents of our mind are a product of our genes, our environment, and our personal choice. Our genes nudge us in certain directions—sometimes this nudge might more aptly be described as a shove—but we make the decisions that determine the trajectory of our lives.”

“When children earn stickers or candies by working as a team, they withhold their goodies from children who didn't help but share with children who did. This might not seem very friendly—it might even seem like behavior you should correct: sharing is caring after all—but from an evolutionary standpoint, it's mission critical.”

“Çayırlardan Google'a geçişimiz kuşkusuz epey şiddetli ve son derece verimsiz oldu, ama evrimin doğası da tam olarak böyledir. Bu dünyada devamlı olarak değişimler gerçekleşir ve hayat buna ya uyum sağlar ya da yok olur. Doğrusu, 66 milyon yıl önce devasa bir göktaşı Dünya gezegenini ıskalamış olsaydı insanlar muhtemelen evrimleşmezdi. Meksika Körfezi'ne çarpan ve küresel ateş fırtınalarına ve iklim değişikliğine yol açan bu uzay çöpü 100 milyon yıldan uzun bir süre boyunca gezegenimize hükmetmiş devasa avcıları ortadan kaldırmıştı.”

“Although we suffer from many of our ancestors' bad habits, they also evolved a motivational system that continues to reward us when we get it right. This is happiness.”

“The task of philosophy is not to invalidate reason, but to discover its contradictions and to demonstrate its limitations while preserving its immanence.”

“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”

“'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.”

“In space no one can hear you scream; and in a black hole, no one can see you disappear.”

“In our work titled “On Nature and Against Method, Reflections & Propositions,” in Proposition XXXVII, we stated the following: The ancient Ionian thinkers and natural philosophers who had, in a sense, transformed into the fire of Heraclitus, namely the masters of the Milesian school, the cradle of civilization, await the reemergence of this Ionian vision, which we have described as a kind of reverie, within Blue Anatolia. Science, which is now struggling within a profound darkness of processes and risks coming to a complete standstill in its progress, may yet be revitalized by minds that will once again inherit and internalize the approaches of these Ionian thinkers toward nature. Today more than ever, there is a need for Thales’ water and magnetism, Anaximenes’ breath, Anaximander’s apeiron, Anaxagoras’ ordering mind, and Xenophanes of Colophon’s counter-awareness, his narratives, and his poetic sensibility.”