Carl Woese quotes:

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework

Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.