Scientist Quotes

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
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