We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.