The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

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

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

Science is not inherently good.

The development of family entities enables men to cooperate far more effectively. Instead of constantly competing for the women with other men, each man essentially has a partner assigned to him, one with whom he can establish a family.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.