The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

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.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

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

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

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