Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third dimension is the history of each species in turn, comprising both its genetic evolution and the environmental change that drove the evolution. Biology, by growing in all three dimensions, is progressing toward unification and will continue to do so.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.