Stefan Klein > Quotes

“Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.”
― Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness: How Our Brains Make Us Happy - and What We Can Do to Get Happier

“Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“We believe that we’re in control of our lives. But in reality we can only seize opportunities.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“more the territory of our knowledge expands, the longer the boundary between that territory and what we don’t know”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“you can call human beings stellar nuclear waste.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“be a human being first and a scientist second.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.”
― Stefan Klein

“Altruism is what made us human.”
― Stefan Klein, Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

“we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“I realized I wanted a just world here on earth, not a just paradise somewhere else.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“We have evidence that autistic people’s mirror mechanism is impaired.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“Feminism has two sides: Along with the struggle against oppression, it’s also always been about taking female experiences seriously. After all, women haven’t been twiddling their thumbs for the last ten thousand years; they have been raising the entire population of the earth. And the insights they have attained from that are just as valuable as the tradition of mostly solitary male philosophers and theologians.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“morality means giving common concerns or the wellbeing of others as much weight as one’s own self-interest. Moral behaviour in this sense can be found in any society, because it is the glue that sticks individuals together and so makes society possible. Indeed, the basis of this morality – altruism – is innate to humans, as many recent studies have shown. Without ever having been told to do so, even toddlers are willing to help and to share with others ["Once and Future Sins," Aeon, March 24, 2015].”
― Stefan Klein

“I found that tunnel vision, which an academic career simply requires, horrible.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“it’s almost a prerequisite that you master the techniques of workplace bullying.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

“the taller you are, the more selfish you are.”
― Stefan Klein, We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know