Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.