A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating, over the woods with its finest transparency, glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

Is there a thinker apart from thought?

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator.

I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.