Morgan Freeman quotes from Through the Wormhole

Morgan Freeman

  It may not be as hard as you think for a bigot to have a change of heart.  If any of us has a positive experience with someone from a different racial group, biology has the power to make us feel empathy for a stranger from that group.  In facts, Peggy believes that empathy is a primal instinct for all mammals.

  What rats tell us is that we have a mammalian inheritance which makes us want to help another in distress.  But the amazing thing we learn from the rats is that what the rats need to do is to have an experience with a different type of rat, and then that rat can be part of their in-group, too.  And that's really—that's really an amazing and hopeful message, I think.

Morgan Freeman

  But there is one paradox that time-travel may create.  When time-travelling Todd turns over those time machine plans to his ancestor, that ancestor could then pass down those plans back to time-travelling Todd, who uses the plans to build the time machine.  Neither of them actually created the plans.

  The question is, where did the plans come from?  The plans seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

  I think about biological systems as physical systems, but they're a unique kind of physical system, and they're uniquely defined, really, by the way they handle information.

Morgan Freeman

  Sara defines life as a self-replicating algorithm, a computational machine that processes information and then makes copies of itself.