An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.