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

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.

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.

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.

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.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

We do the best we can at the time we can.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?