“Baboons have the exact physiology as humans do. They also get the same...” — Robert Sapolsky Quote

“Baboons have the exact physiology as humans do. They also get the same stress-related illnesses, such as ulcers and heart disease.”

“There's a science to what sort of people we're attracted to, and it has to do with everything from how similar they are to us, to what sort of pheromones we imprinted on when we were little, and what variants of genes we have related to the neurochemical oxytocin.”

“As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is - when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.”

“Many of our moments of prosociality, of altruism and Good Samaritanism, are acts of restitution, attempts to counter our antisocial moments.”

“Trying to get somebody excited about learning and trying to get somebody to think in a moral context have begun to have a lot more significance to me.”

“Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.”

“Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.”

“One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.”

“I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.”

“Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.”

“I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.”