Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!

...he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.