There is a weak and inconsistent association between testosterone levels and aggression in [human] adults, and . . . administration of testosterone to volunteers typically does not increase their aggression.

— Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave

…the ever-increasing efficiency of capitalist exploitation inevitably decreases the rate of profit, and that decreased rate of profit leads to monopolies.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

…thanks to hindsight bias, it may feel like the cause constrains the effect, when it was merely fitted to the effect.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

Once a critical mass of conversation is on Facebook, then it’s hard to get conversation going elsewhere. What might have started out as a choice is no longer a choice after a network effect causes a phase change.

— Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?

Literature teems with examples of how the logic of morality and that of love obey contradictory principles. Good morals have never saved anyone from being deceived or abandoned.

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought