Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

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Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

When you're in God's will, even when you miss, you will hit.

Ask anyone concerned with race to fast, and take note of the response you receive.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.