If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.