No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

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.

Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.

A baby’s laughter is the sweetest music that touches every heart.

we were never a match

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.