The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point

You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.

With what we give, we make a life.

The English language is nobody's special property.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.

The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained