The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.