Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Self-awareness is self adventure.

Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.""I know, " she said. "Try to do it behind my back, will you?¨You can bet on that, Mom.¨We both sat there and laughed.

Police are the blue helmets pretending to be batman, commercially gender biased in employment.

I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn’t. Okay?

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Do they allow tipping on the boat? - Yes, sir. Have you got two fives? - Oh, yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.