Suresh T

“The scientific revolution was, in many ways, a by-product of mysticism and magic. In fact, once the tangled origins of modern science are unravelled, it is doubtful whether a ‘scientific revolution’ occurred.”
― John N. Gray, The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom

“The human that depended on focused attention for its survival now becomes the distracted scanning animal, unable to think in depth, yet unable to depend on instincts.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Everything changed that afternoon when I picked up The Right Stuff.”
― Scott Kelly, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

“And at the root of this mental transformation are two simple biological traits—the visual and the social—that primitive humans leveraged into power.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery