Oren Milman

“One of the latest theories of aging—and my favorite—is presented by my friend and colleague David Sinclair in Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To. The information theory of aging proposes that we age and become more susceptible to diseases because our cells lose information. DNA stores information digitally, but the cells have an analog format that can modulate the function of genes in the sequence of the DNA.”
― Nir Barzilai, Age Later: Secrets of the Healthiest, Sharpest Centenarians

“Every aspect of job performance gets better as we age,” Peter Cappelli, the director of the Wharton Center for Human Resources, reported after he began to investigate the stereotypes that often surround older workers. “I thought the picture might be more mixed, but it isn’t. The juxtaposition between the superior performance of older workers and the discrimination against them in the workplace just really makes no sense.”
― David A. Sinclair, Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To

“The first part of his day went by easily. He spent most of it still turning over the problem of his Cooking Class.”
― Honour Rae, All the Skills

“Darwin didn’t consider himself a quick or highly analytical thinker. His memory was poor, and he couldn’t follow long mathematical arguments. Nevertheless, Darwin felt that he made up for those shortcomings with a crucial strength: his urge to figure out how reality worked. Ever since he could remember, he had been driven to make sense of the world around him. He followed what he called a “golden rule” to fight against motivated reasoning:
. . . whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.
Therefore, even though the peacock’s tail made him anxious, Darwin couldn’t stop puzzling over it. How could it possibly be consistent with natural selection?
Within a few years, he had figured out the beginnings of a compelling answer.”
― Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't