If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.

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

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

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

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)