We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.

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

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

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

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

People would rather believe than know.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.