Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.

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

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.