Stefan Klein

“We believe that we’re in control of our lives. But in reality we can only seize opportunities.”

— Stefan Klein

“Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.”

— Stefan Klein

“you can call human beings stellar nuclear waste.”

— Stefan Klein

“it’s almost a prerequisite that you master the techniques of workplace bullying.”

— Stefan Klein

“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.”

— Stefan Klein

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein

“Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.”

— Stefan Klein

“No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.”

— Stefan Klein

“be a human being first and a scientist second.”

— Stefan Klein

“Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.”

— Stefan Klein

“Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.”

— Stefan Klein

“the taller you are, the more selfish you are.”

— Stefan Klein

“more the territory of our knowledge expands, the longer the boundary between that territory and what we don’t know”

— Stefan Klein

“we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.”

— Stefan Klein

“We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.”

— Stefan Klein

“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.”

— Stefan Klein

“We have evidence that autistic people’s mirror mechanism is impaired.”

— Stefan Klein

“She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants.”

— Stefan Klein

“People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.”

— Stefan Klein

“we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.”

— Stefan Klein

“I found that tunnel vision, which an academic career simply requires, horrible.”

— Stefan Klein

“post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves.”

— Stefan Klein