Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our minds; we're on our way to explaining a large part of it. I'll accept an answer provided only by such means as obtaining and exploring, analyzing and arguing over the evidence - not because of a scribe's myopic view of the subject written 500 years before the birth of Christ!

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.