Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.