'When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived'

'Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed an…

'When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual i…

'Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five' (cf Orwell, in 1984)

Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.

And you can't capture the importance of the environment unless you recognize the interaction between social conditions and cultural conditions.

But here I stop-short of any deterministic speculation that attributes specific behaviors to the possession of specific altruist or opportunist genes. Our gene…