Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.

A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good [...] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland's ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.