New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

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 exchange rate for ideas is infinite.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.