... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

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.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.