Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

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

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.