To learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art.

I can’t do that. I’m sorry. I’ll never be a novelist.

To learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.

To learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it.

To learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos.

To learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth.

The man was connected to the universe in ways that I've never seen another human being connect.

A cute little tiny book that tells you all the things who people who want to fool you into thinking something that’s true, that’s not, and how they manipulate statistics in order to accomplish this.

To learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.

If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes.

To learn that the universe is a knowable place.

The crowning achievement of a geocentric universe. Of course, the whole concept was wrong, but it was interestingly wrong.