Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

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.

it’s hard to tell whether ornot hell’s flames are gettingcloser

She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.

And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.