Danica S

“Every generation inherits a worldview it struggles to see past. The Copernican revolution revealed that humans were not the center of the cosmos. The Darwinian revolution showed that humans were one species among many, evolved from common origins. We are amid another revolution in how we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of Nature--one challenging the remaining strongholds of anthropocentrism in Western science.”
― Christine Webb, The Arrogant Ape: And A New Way To See Humanity

“If I could sum up the message of this book in one pithy phrase, it would be that you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.”
― Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

“Where causation is concerned, a grain of wise subjectivity tells us more about the real world than any amount of objectivity.”
― Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect