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

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.

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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.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.