Who You Are Depends On The Sum

If You Are A Carrier Of A Particular Set Of Genes, Your Probability Of Committing A Violent Crime Goes Up By Eight Hundred And Eighty-two Percent.

Keep In Mind That Every Single Generation Before Us Has Worked Under The Assumption That They Possessed All The Major Tools For Understanding The Universe, And They Were All Wrong, Without Exception.

Just Like A Good Drama, The Human Brain Runs On Conflict.

What A Life In Science Really Teaches You Is The Vastness Of Our Ignorance.

As Walt Whitman Correctly Surmised, We Are Large And We Harbor Multitudes Within Us. And Those Multitudes Are Locked In Chronic Battle. There Is An Ongoing Conversation Among The Different Factions In Your Brain, Each Competing To Control The Single Output Channel Of Your Behavior. As A Result, You Can Accomplish The Strange Feats Of Arguing With Yourself, Cursing At Yourself, And Cajoling Yourself To Do Something - Feats That Modern Computers Simply Do Not Do.