Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

God Is Love But For This Love To Be Real To Us Depends Largely On Our Responses and Reactions to Him.

This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan

God is only God when he is acting as such.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.