"Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few…"

"This is a classic case of what is often called physics envy, the disease among scientists where the behavioral biolog…"

"We are a fine species with some potential. Yet we are racked by sickening amounts of violence. Unless we are hermints…"

"The ones who I train to become scientists go at it like the warriors they should be, overturning existing knowledge a…"

"The notion of the psychopathology of the shaman works just as readily in understanding the roots of major Western rel…"

"The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the…"

"Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease."

"Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocortico…"

"If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble."

"I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science mean…"