The future will belong to the nature-smart. . . Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
I am very Aristotelian in approach - not in detail - so I always find I'm saying things that get people frustrated like 'It's a matter of balance and judgement'. To a lot of philosophers these are terrible words because they're admitting of vagueness and uncertainty. The more I've done philosophy, the more I've become convinced that that is the way it is.
No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.
Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.
I know who I am, and that never changes.
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.