Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.