The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...

it’s okay to love onseLf unconditionally so tHat U truly know U &can recognize the embedded healing & curing aspects &properties buried with-in U & Eye (all of us]

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Significance is sweet.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.