In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

The natural world is not indestructible.