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I was not especially a writer back in college.

— Robert Sapolsky

You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those…

— Robert Sapolsky

I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.…

— Robert Sapolsky

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

— Robert Sapolsky

Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting…

— Robert Sapolsky

When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then…

— Robert Sapolsky

To do good science, you've got to work really, really hard.

— Robert Sapolsky

Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be…

— Robert Sapolsky

“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you can't favor…

— Robert Sapolsky

I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing…

— Robert Sapolsky

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

— Robert Sapolsky

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability…

— Robert Sapolsky