As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

Language changes very fast.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.