The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

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.

I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.