You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technol…

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bac…

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pit…

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.