Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

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.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.