Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.