There are countless opportunities in this world for one to give of him- or herself. And doing so, says WuDunn, helps more than just the receiver, even if it's not immediately apparent.

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious person looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."

Perel, a world-renowned psychologist and relationship expert, defines the division between sexuality and eroticism as similar to the difference between animals and human beings.

"The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

"A skateboarder’s way of thought is so different that I feel if somebody had some sort of dilemma in their life you could ask a skateboarder for an outside opinion.You may get something that is absolutely ridiculous or you could get something that’s absolutely brilliant." -From his recent Big Think interview

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

"The world and our perceptions have changed a lot, even since the '70s, but there are lingering stereotypes. If you ask an 11-year-old to draw a scientist, she's likely to draw a geeky guy with a pocket protector. That's just not an image an 11-year-old girl aspires to."

"We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it."

Former Professional Wrestler Diamond Dallas Page returns to Big Think to share how yoga rescued his career in 1999 after a debilitating back injury nearly killed it.

"So whatever you’re trying to do, you need to remember that there will always be better than, less than and different than. That means whoever’s the best - in professional wrestling you might say Hulk Hogan. Everybody under him, less than. Except for the person or company that’s different than. That’s what DDP Yoga is. That’s what Diamond Dallas Page the wrestler was." From his recent Big Think interview.

“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question' who am I' except the voice inside herself.” 

"The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves."

If you’re in the business of analyzing social networks, it’s vital to establish strategies for mapping human interaction. It’s also vital to remember that human interactions are dependent on knowledge […]

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind.

After previously discussing surveillance and autonomous cars, Singularity University's Brad Templeton returns to Big Think to examine some lighter fare: quantum mechanics and computing.

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously."

"You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized."

A little bit of history was made on Nantucket on Sunday.   Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over […]

Hal Luftig, who's won four Tonys and an Olivier award, explains why there's no entertainment experience in the world quite like live theater.

"To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality."