Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.