Quotes from Stefan Klein

Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.

Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.

We believe that we're in control of our lives. But in reality we can only seize opportunities.

you can call human beings stellar nuclear waste.

more the territory of our knowledge expands, the longer the boundary between that territory and what we don't know

People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.

We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.

post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves.

humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.

Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.

we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.

be a human being first and a scientist second.

extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.

No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.

it's almost a prerequisite that you master the techniques of workplace bullying.

She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants.

we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.

Publishing in an academic journal doesn't do anything to dispel racist ideas.

I found that tunnel vision, which an academic career simply requires, horrible.

We have evidence that autistic people's mirror mechanism is impaired.

I realized I wanted a just world here on earth, not a just paradise somewhere else.

the taller you are, the more selfish you are.