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We reached the crest of the Blue Ridge as dawn exhaled a lavender breath across the sky.
Our ability to read out this sequence of our own genome has the makings of a philosophical paradox. Can an intelligent being comprehend the instructions to make itself? —John Sulston
We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wondrous civilization. But paradoxically—tragically—our creation’s complexity had now far outstripped our brains’ ability to manage it.
“Maybe compassion and empathy are just squishy emotions. Illusions created by our mirror neurons.
“You can’t kill humanity to save humanity. Human beings are not a means to an end.”
Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man.
