What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.

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

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

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

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.