"......there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person."
"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness - or as Lederman put it: 'There is a deep feeling that the picture is not beautiful.'"
"The Sinking Ark, Norman Myers suggested that human activities were causing about two extinctions a week on the planet. By the early 1990s he had raised the figure to some six hundred per week. (That's extinctions of all types - plants, insects and so on as well as animals.)"