I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness.

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

The only place the broken past has in our present, is the place we give it.

He was't just my exception. He was my reason.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.