1. “People respect nonfiction but they read novels.”
2. “Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.”
3. “The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.”
4. “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
5. “If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not same as truth.”
6. “The education of women is the best way to save environment.”
7. “Political ideology can corrupt the mind and science.”
8. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
9. “Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.”
10. “Science and religion are the two must powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.”
11. “People would rather believe than know.”
12. “Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.”
13. “Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.”
14. “Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.”
15. “True character arses from a deeper well than religion.”
