Shankar Vedantam Quotes

There Is No Use Complaining About The Hidden Brain, Or Wishing It Away. The Telescope Effect In Our Moral Judgment Is Part Of Our Nature. There Is Nothing We Can Do About It. But There Is Something We Can Do About Our Actions. We Can Choose To Allow Our Actions To Be Guided By Reason Rather Than Instinct, Choose To Set Up National And International Institutions That Respond Instantly To Humanitarian Crises, Rather Than Wait For Our Heartstrings To Be Pulled By Stories Of Individual Tragedy. If We Rely On Our Moral Telescopes, There Will Be People In A Hundred Years Who Ask How The World Could Have Sat On Its Hands Through So Many Genocides In The Twenty-first Century. Making

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