Wayne

“we are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck, over which we had no control, that has brought us to any moment.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

“There is no draft more bitter than that of helplessness”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“There is no justifiable “deserve.” The only possible moral conclusion is that you are no more entitled to have your needs and desires met than is any other human. That there is no human who is less worthy than you to have their well-being considered.[*] You may think otherwise, because you can’t conceive of the threads of causality beneath the surface that made you you, because you have the luxury of deciding that effort and self-discipline aren’t made of biology, because you have surrounded yourself with people who think the same. But this is where the science has taken us.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

“Nonetheless, no other primate kills over ideology, theology, or aesthetics.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst