I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look.

Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.