If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

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.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

Concerning Social Media and Banding, You don't build permanent structures on a rented land.

I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.

A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

There is no future without education.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.