The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.