[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

One planet, one experiment.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.