Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

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

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.