I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

The aeroplane will never fly.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

We make our own music. We paint our own future.

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

Canada is a vast and empty country.