The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.