This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

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

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

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.