Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi...
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself...
We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn...
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is the wildest of...
The central task of science is to arrive stage by stage at a clearer...
I suggest that the introductory courses in science at all levels from grade...
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may...
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from...
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most...
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We...
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine...
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded...
The great secret of doctors known only to their wives but still hidden from...
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any...
At this early stage in our evolution now through our infancy and into our...
Doctors dressed up in one professional costume or another have been in busy...
We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal....
I don't want to be reincarnated that's for sure. When you've had rewarding...
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we...
The dilemma of modern medicine and the underlying central flaw in medical...
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain...
Survival in the cool economics of biology means simply the persistence of...
I won't compare ants and people but ants give us a useful model of how...
I have retired but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
