It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

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

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

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.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.