Chris

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”
― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

“Fiction is empathy technology.”
― Steven Pinker

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.”
― Steven Pinker, Words and Rules

“Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature