Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.

When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.