All quotes from
James' book
Ignorance is the product of active
cultivation. It spreads through
marketing and through rumor.
To allow ourselves to be challenged – to welcome it, and to seek it
out – is to guard against the purposeful cultivation of ignorance.
Sometimes the most interesting thing is knowing why we don’t know,
and the point is in the considering, and being comfortable in not knowing.
Health is a balance between acceptance and control.
Preventable illness influences and is influenced by education,
employment, the environment, and the economy.
We rely too heavily on a mind-set where our system fixes problems,
and not heavily enough on creating systems where these problems do not arise.
Around 8% of our genes are not even human, but viral. We are born
with viruses woven into our DNA, and we contain trillions of bacteria that are
responsible for, among other things, the appearances of our faces, our body
weights, and our state of mind.
Our bodies are dynamic networks of genetic information shaped by
experience, and microbes that change who we are in every moment.
We weren’t made to do anything. Our bodies are collections of
processes that exist as responses to other processes.
