The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the pr…

- Richard Lewontin

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists…

- Richard Lewontin

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

- Richard Lewontin

An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it mi…

- Richard Lewontin

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

- Richard Lewontin

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases…

- Richard Lewontin

We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology…

- Richard Lewontin

If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that…

- Richard Lewontin

With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so …

- Richard Lewontin