It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.