Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

One planet, one experiment.

Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper