Richard Lewontin Quotes

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.