No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

Little things that run the world.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

Devotion to sacred cause is divine.

When you rejects knowledge God can't help you because He can't help you with what you do not know.

Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

Talent is nothing without persistence.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.