Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

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

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?