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

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

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.

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.