So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.