In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.