Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

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.

We can go and explore different roads in our future, but the past ones are permanent, just like our greatest memories.

Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?

God always protects what He considers to be a blessing for a person.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.