27 Interesting quotes from the Edge Question 2011

This year, Edge asks the following question: "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolit?" 151 Elite thinkers answered the question. Here are 27 interesting quotes from that material. Which of these quotes seems most valuable to you and why?

1. "We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves"~Rudy Rucker 
2. "Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable"~Rudy Rucker 
3. "Truth is a model"~Neil Gershenfeld 
4. "Making sense of anything means making models that can predict outcomes and accommodate observations"~Neil Gershenfeld 
5. "Uncertainty is a central component of what makes science successful"~Lawrence Krauss 
6. "Human achievement is based on collective intelligence"~Matt Ridley 
7. "We can control the spotlight of attention, focusing on those ideas that will help us succeed"~Jonah Lehrer 
8. "Our own most cherished beliefs might appear patently false to posterity"~Kathryn Shulz 
9. "Knowledge collapses as often as it accretes"~Kathryn Shulz 
10. "The concept that people need to add to their toolkit isn't a scientific discovery; it's science itself"~Paul Bloom 
11. "Even the simplest activities of everyday life involve much more cooperation than you might think."~Roger Highfield
12. "I think everyone would do well do overcome that urge to see agents where there are none."~Carl Zimmer 
13. "Intellectual life is very much about the ability to distinguish between shallow and deep abstractions."~Tor Nørretranders 
14. "The dichotomy-denying phrase "instinct to learn" deserves a place in the cognitive toolkit of everyone"~W. Tecumseh Fitch 
15. "Understanding behavior requires that we understand the interaction between inborn processes and individual experience"~W. Tecumseh Fitch 
16. "One of the most pernicious misconceptions in cognitive science is the belief in a dichotomy between nature and nurture"~W. Tecumseh Fitch 
17. "At every level in the vast and dynamic world of living things lies diversity." ~Joan Chiao 
18. "If everybody could learn to deal better with the unknown, it would improve the chances for humanity as a whole" ~Seth Lloyd 
19. "Saying "A causes B" sounds precise, but is actually very vague"~David Dalrymple 
20. "The power of language to direct thought should never be taken lightly."~Stuart Firestein 
21. "Too often in science we operate under the principle that "to name it is to tame it""~Stuart Firestein 
22. "Overcoming this mental weakness, known as confirmation bias, is a lifelong struggle"~Gary Marcus 
23. "Knowing the limits of our minds can help us to make better reasoners"~Gary Marcus 
24. "The universe is young; wherever we find microbial life thr will be intelligent life in the future."~J.Graig Venter
25. "We live on a microbial planet. We have more than 100 trillion microbes on and in each of us"~J.Graig Venter
26. "Humans are not the terminal branch of an evolutionary tree, but a species that emerged early in history" ~Martin Rees 
27. "Far more time lies ahead than has elapsed" ~Martin Rees