Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

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.

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

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.