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

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

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

There is no better high than discovery.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.