In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

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.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.