A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

the mind is a neural computer

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt..., " but "If ... then ... else.

Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.

I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.