It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

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

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

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 most beautiful eyes haven’t been seen yet

you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole, love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness, there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand?

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?

It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.