Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Love is nourishment. Everything gets better with love.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

What year did Jesus think it was?

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.