There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Whenever you smile, whenever you care, whenever you love, whenever you share, your spirit will dance with joy because happiness is there.

wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.