Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

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

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

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

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.

Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.