Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

No apology is equal to the task set before it.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?