The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

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