We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.

People like to trace their ancestry.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'