Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true