"Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap."

"You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media."

"I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can."

"Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that."

"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us."

"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement."