To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?