Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

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.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

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