If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...

I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.