I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

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.

I live love in each moment. I let love heal me and elevate me to my highest self.

It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known.

Growing older is certain

When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.

I delegate, therefore I am.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

A new car is not going to change your life.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.