I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.
I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
You can't out-perform your self-image.