"Even a completely isolated culture existing in an ecologically stable environment cannot avoid change. Unlike the laws of physics, which are free of inconsistencies, every man-made order is packed with internal contradictions. Cultures are constantly trying to reconcile these contradictions, and this process feels change." Excerpt from Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

"The mind imposes this framework which it calls "reality". That arbitrary framework has a tendency to be quite independent of what your senses report." Muad'Dib

"Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its lifespan is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but on manifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word."

"... a wholistic conception of useful knowledge is not universal. It is dependent upon or embedded in its cultural and institutional contexts."

“Of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences upon the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.” John Stuart Mill Thoughts on biological determinism and racism.

"... debates based on no evidence are among the most revealing in the history of science, for in the absence of factual constraints, the cultural biases that affect all thought (and which scientists try so assiduously to deny) lie nakedly exposed." Quote: Ever since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould