People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?