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• People have been so encouraged by society to focus on apparent differences that they fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups.
• People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which as individuals, they know are stupid.
• At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
  o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new....
• At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
  o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new....
• The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals.
  The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten....
• According to a poll of 200 charitable organizations, donations of money to nonprofit groups increased by nearly 25 percent last year, though not all charities gained equally.
  Religious groups gained the most (30 percent), followed by environmental groups (23 percent), whereas educational institutions experienced only a very small increase in donations (3 percent)....
• Breakthrough ideas are not from teams. -- Hans von Ohai
• One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone.
  These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas....