Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief