What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.