In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.