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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.
When Amazon emerged, people had these debates about whether people would put their credit cards online.
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.
I have deep respect for Rep. Jackie Speier and all that she has done to open doors for women everywhere.
The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.
I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.
When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.
I did a lot of fun things before I had kids - I traveled a lot. Now, I just really love being with my kids.
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.
When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.