It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

Conversion is the key to maintaining wealth

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.