I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

To forgive does not mean to condone.

Creativity is the power to act.

Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.

Always have Faith. Always have Hope.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

The proverb is something musty.