All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.