So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

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

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.