I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

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.

Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population

Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.