I regret my disbelief in God.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds.

We can live such a more abundant life when we simply embrace the journey as much as we desire the destination.

Happiness is a great big hug, hugging us from the inside. allow yourself to feel its warmth and grace

I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.