Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.