Even in the age of science, we understand the motions of the distant, ancient stars better than we understand the organism observing them: ourselves. - Steve Stewart-Williams

Some claim that life, the universe, and mind are miraculous. My conclusion is that these things are really, really amazing, but that they’re not miraculous (unless by miraculous, you just mean ‘really, really amazing’).

By clamping down on male aggression, culture may make the sex difference in aggression smaller than it would otherwise have been.

Why should any individual woman today be advantaged over any individual man just because other men were advantaged over other women in the past? Reversing historical injustices does not erase them; it merely adds to the total number of injustices in the world. The question we face today, therefore, is this: Is the appropriate response to injustice to try to eliminate it, or to turn it on its head?