Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

Science is not inherently good.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

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.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.