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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.