Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.