I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us.

We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.