The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

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

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.