The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

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

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

One planet, one experiment.