Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -