It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.