• The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

    Stephen Jay Gould: The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.
    Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage