What is Your Single Knowledge Statement?

The late great Richard Feynman is a Nobel Peace Prize winning physicist. In his famous Lectures on Physics, he presented this interesting thought “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?”

Seed magazine posed a similar question to a number of leading thinkers asking for a single statement of knowledge gained from their work aimed at changing everyone’s thinking about the world. The respondents gave poignant answers about physics, cultural evolution, and sustaining the biosphere (read article here).

This has greatly intrigued me. We’ve all gained a wealth of lessons working in our varying fields as businesspersons, writers, teachers, economists, pastors, administrators, medical providers, psychologists, computer engineers, and such. Lessons which are valuable to the next generations. So, I pose this question to you:

If you had to boil those lessons into ONE single statement to pass on to others, summarizing the most vital lesson you’ve drawn from your work, what would be your one Single Knowledge Statement?

Think about it and share it here. I’m working on mine…