The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

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.

Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.