Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

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

To live a successful life and make a difference in the world, you must continue to dream.

Life is too short to be miserable for 40+ hours a week.

All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

I don't need to put extra pressure on myself right now. The important thing is for me to stay healthy, in practice, and just keep on the hours. You just never know when it's going to happen for you.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.