Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

My students don't even know I'm gone.

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.