People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.