Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

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

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

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

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless