I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

[Eva Braun] always called him der Führer to us. It was ridiculous, but she never changed that.

Day and night, meditate forever on the Lord.

He caressed my cheek. "You came for me," I whispered. "Always," he told me.

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.