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

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Every kid has a bug period, I like to say, and I just got so fascinated and I had that experience, that wonderful life of being able to go out on my own without really any supervision at all. I just lucked out that way. I was trusted as a kid.