

“This is probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.”
― Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
― Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

“My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”
― The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
― The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“Her extremely posh eight year-old asks her a question about the economy (!), and before she answers it, she asks her extremely posh five year-old "Do you know what the economy is, darling?"
"Yes mummy, it's the part of the plane that's terrible".
This is how revolutions start.”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
"Yes mummy, it's the part of the plane that's terrible".
This is how revolutions start.”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.”
― Life on Earth
― Life on Earth

“Innovation is combinatorial. It combines old things to make the new.”
― Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
― Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
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