Youngmoon Bhang

“In short, your brain’s most important job is not thinking. It’s running a little worm body that has become very, very complicated.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

“Other animals are not inferior to humans. They are uniquely and effectively adapted to their environments. Your brain is not more evolved than a rat or lizard brain, just differently evolved.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

“In short, science is well positioned to properly handle belief. Religion is not.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs

“Only a brief study of history is necessary to show that Greek philosophers were undesirable citizens, who throughout the period of their investigations were victims of relentless persecution, at the hands of the Athenian government. Anaxagoras was imprisoned and exiled; Socrates was executed; Plato was sold into slavery and Aristotle was indicted and exiled; while the earliest of them all, Pythagoras, was expelled from Croton in Italy. Can we imagine the Greeks making such an about turn, as to claim the very teachings which they had at first persecuted and openly rejected?”
― George J. M. James, By George G. M. James: Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy