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.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

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

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

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

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.