A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

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

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.