Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Survival is a four letter word.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

If we have made a specific transition, what it means is that anything is possible right now.

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

There's no shame in being crazy.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.