Robert

“Confirmation bias is a common diagnosis for human folly and a target for enhancing rationality. Francis Bacon (1561–1626), often credited with developing the scientific method, wrote of a man who was taken to a church and shown a painting of sailors who had escaped a shipwreck thanks to their holy vows. “Aye,” he remarked, “but where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?”
― Steven Pinker, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

“Others may have it in their power to affect how and even whether you live, but they do not, say the Stoics, have it in their power to ruin your life. Only you can ruin it, by failing to live in accordance with the correct values. The Stoics believed in social reform, but they also believed in personal transformation.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“Thus, essentially every aspect of your childhood—good, bad, or in between—factors over which you had no control, sculpted the adult brain you have”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

“Just to show the scale of epigenetic complexity, differences in mothering styles in monkeys cause epigenetic changes in more than a thousand genes expressed in the offspring’s frontal cortex.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will