Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

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