Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.

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

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

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.