Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.

The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.