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

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.

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.

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.

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.

One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

Finally, this book has the potential to radically alter your understanding of who you really are—your high calling as one of the “sons of God.

Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.