"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction." — E. O. Wilson

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.