Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

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.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.

While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.