2 Quotes by David Epstein

The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it.

One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people to be active or not" Lightfoot says. "You can have a predisposition to be a couch potato