“We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to t...” — George M. Church Quote

We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.

If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity.

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.

With the evolution of basketball there's always going to be new types of players and moves.