I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.

We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'