An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?

Owl, " said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.

When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.

If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the Divine. It must be displayed publicly.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

Order is the key to all problems.

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

Tell freedom I said hello.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.