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

- Carl Woese

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 …

- Carl Woese

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

- Carl Woese