If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

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.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

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