But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
Steven PinkerYou could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.
Steven PinkerThe supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.
Steven PinkerThe theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
Steven Pinker