Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

The essence of being human is being creative.

We are at an inflection point in history.

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.