Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but who love the land as much as any environmentalist. Progressives share a number of common values with people who call themselves conservatives. Barack Obama has understood that very well. What he calls bipartisanship is not adopting conservative views, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share with him and other progressives these fundamental American values.