The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.

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

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.