We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age, ' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.