Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

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

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.