No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

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 genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

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.

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.