Philosophy

We crystallize and store knowledge in specialised sounds and language, and then play with it – build and forge and mould it and model with it – using it to grip hold of the past and to imagine and plan the future.

Out of our cleverness has emerged something almost more important than the cleverness itself. Out of it has come learning about how to share ideas and pass down skills and knowledge. Out of it has come education.

We are the same people, physically: today, we have no additional neurons, no better wiring. But our tools for thinking – our ideas, hypotheses, theories, models – are marvellously improved. The only reason we are better at thinking and doing things now is that we accumulate knowledge and pass ideas and information from one generation to the next.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans- because we can… We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings… That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Renowned poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist; author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and E=mc².

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes...

Leader of Catholic Church for 27 years; advocated for human rights and peace

Cancer cells grow faster, adapt better. They are more perfect versions of ourselves.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician specializing in cancer biology

To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than we are. This image- of cancer as our desperate, malevolent, contemporary doppelganger- is so haunting because it is at least partly true.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician specializing in cancer biology

If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician specializing in cancer biology

We were approaching the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society.

Media Theorist Who Predicted the Digital Age & Global Communication

We are in the epoch of simultaneity; we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and the far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed.

Influential Philosopher of Power, Knowledge, and Discourse in Modern Society

Electronic systems change not only what we know, but how we know it.

Influential Federal Judge & Law and Economics Scholar

We have come to consider children as either being exploited or subject to charity; we hardly ever consider them as the equal human beings they are, born with certain inalienable rights.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner & Child Rights Activist Against Child Labor

Most people think of entrepreneurs as someone who starts a company, but to me? Entrepreneurship is really about problem solving. You can be an entrepreneur in a company, in a family or in your own venture. The bottom line? If you can solve a problem – you're an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur & Founder of Moon Express, Infosys Technologies Co-Founder

I have anxiety and depression, I don't 'suffer with them' as the description would normally go. I have them in the way I have arms, legs, eyes and a mouth, they are a part of me.

I see it as my moral obligation in this world to help these people unlock their potential so they can start working on humanity's grand challenges.