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Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think