Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.