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Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

— Robert Sapolsky

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Stated most straightforwardly, most of earth’s humans have inherited their beliefs about the nature of birth and death and everything in between and thereafter from preliterate Middle Eastern pastoralists.

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017)

The notion of the psychopathology of the shaman works just as readily in understanding the roots of major Western religions as well.

The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (1997)

From the very moment of your life, culture is leaving an imprint on who you are.

The Neuroscience Behind Behavior (2017)

We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we're never going to learn everything about everything.

Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)

And regardless of where we hide, should our leaders push the button, we will all be lost in a final global violence.

The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (1997)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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