I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

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.

just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.

How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.