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“If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of religion, the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defense.”
― Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. —WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback.”
― Douglas Stone, Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

“The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop “sleeping furiously.” There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God.”
― Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates