Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.