Morgan Blackledge

“Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Instead of recovering, it seems that addicts keep growing, as does anyone who overcomes their difficulties through deliberation and insight.”
― Marc Lewis, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

“If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct, which with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. —JOHN VON NEUMANN”
― William R. Miller, Rethinking Substance Abuse: What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It