I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

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

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.