Quotes from PO BRONSON

Another way to characterize it is that our chances of finding a habitable planet are roughly equal to the chances that Christopher Columbus, sailing east, would accidentally discover the Americas. It's not a question of if. It's only a question of when.

Life, though, really means a cell membrane. In biology, what defines life is the ability to self-reproduce. And only things with cell membranes can reproduce on their own.

The randomness of cancer is often very hard to accept.

Cancer is caused by mutations. Mutations that pile up until runaway cell division occurs. We have random DNA damage happening in our bodies all the time.

Practicing is greater than knowing." Not better than knowing. Greater.

When you act, you learn. That kind of wisdom beats the knowledge you read in a book, every time. To really seek answers, you need to act. To really develop your mind, run more experiments.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control," she explains. "They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Fish can pass memories between generations. But maybe the better way to say it is that fish can pass experience learning through generations.

People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into.

child deprived of the opportunity to discuss mistakes can't learn from them.

Rather than "Survival of the Fittest"—which wasn't from Charles Darwin; it was a philosopher interpreting Darwin in 1864— we might have had the opposite, "Survival of the Most Cooperative.

person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they'll quit when the rewards disappear.

At IndieBio, I quickly learned there was no such master plan— but more than that, it was wrong to think this period we face could be planned out at all. It was fast, blind, and dense. Nobody is an expert in the unknown. Planning wasn't the way to solve it. Experimenting was. There is no plan, just a way.

Saying that genetics could be dangerous is like saying fire is hot. Warning that soon everyone will be able to hack the genome is like predicting, back in early caveman days, that soon everyone will have fire.

intelligence is a human construct, not a biological thing)

So in most people, all these intelligence genes add and subtract against each other, to result in, on average, a single IQ point. The intelligence genes do not determine your IQ.

They make the money cheap to borrow, and then that debt turns the borrower into a weapon against change. As long as the world doesn't change, the bonds are paid off.

Children are not passive absorbers of knowledge; rather, they are active constructors of concepts

What it adds up to is stunning: Worker wages could have been 60 percent higher today, if we had kept health care costs in check. Another way to say it is: American workers will never see another pay raise if health care costs keep siphoning off the money.

According to an extensive study comparing identical twins to fraternal twins, headed by University of New Mexico's Dr. Philip Dale, only 25% of language acquisition is due to genetic factors.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

The biggest lie of all is the notion that robots don't take jobs, they create jobs. The robots don't do that— the humans do.

Don't buy clothes at department stores—just take the clothes into the dressing room, post a photo of yourself on Instagram wearing them, and leave as the likes start accumulating by the hundreds.

Rather than improving trust, crypto has tried to minimize the need for trust. To create a system that requires no trust. To build a world that will still function even when all trust is eroded.