If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

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.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

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

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

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?

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.