Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

When we offer succor to anyone, the Savior feels it as if we reached out to succor Him.

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.

The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.