Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.