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.

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.

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.

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.

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.