One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.