The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.

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.

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.