In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

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.

One planet, one experiment.