One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.