Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

But I will be a beautiful disaster.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

A record is a message, timeless.