Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.