People would rather believe than know.

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

There is no better high than discovery.

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

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 best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.