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

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

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

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

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.