As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Success and discipline are synonymous in life - you can't have one without the other!

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

The four abiding abodes, The ideal attitude for a follower of the Buddhist teaching to maintain towards other living beings.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.