"The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities."

"I am not an alarmist, but I am gravely concerned about the future of life on Earth."

"I am not a scientist in a white coat. I am a writer who happens to write about science."

"It is a truism that in this world of ours, just as in the world of the ancient Greeks, whom we have taught ourselves to admire, there is a certain fatalism."

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."