It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.