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

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.

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.

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

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.

Science is not inherently good.

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.