Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

Struggles, challenges and obstacles are nothing but the doorways to future blessings.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you,' but that's part of my charm.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.