Quotes by : Robert Wright

Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives.....

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

In all these assaults on the senses there is a great wisdom — not only about the addictiveness of pleasures....

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals,....

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas....

Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values....

If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make....

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way