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.

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

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

It's not the glitter, but the love, that makes things beautiful.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.