"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."

"But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture."

"I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves."

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones."