Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Nothing was ever where Cole wanted it to be.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era it should never leave you.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.