Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Our hands will never be too small for helping those who are in need as long we have the heart to care.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

The best diet is the one that you don't know you are on.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.