Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do. - Edward O. Wilson

To give in completely to the instinctual urgings born from individual selection would be to dissolve society. At the opposite extreme, to surrender to the urgings from group selection would turn us into angelic robots — the outsized equivalents of ants.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.