Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others