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

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.