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We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.
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Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
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I predict it will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of psychology.
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The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt...," but "If... then... else.
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If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.
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Some people worry that slang will somehow corrupt the language. We should be so lucky.
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Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.
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Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
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We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
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Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!
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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
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The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.
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People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
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The 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.
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Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
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Language is obviously as different from other animals' communication systems as the elephant's trunk is different from other animals' nostrils.
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Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
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As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.
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Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'
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Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.
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As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.
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The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise
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Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.
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Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.
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The 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.
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