I'm a sucker for a good aphorism:-
"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it."
"We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think."
"Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors."
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3984
Predators run to eat. Prey run to live.
Wealth corrupts. And absolute wealth corrupts absolutely.