If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'