I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Everyone is allowed to have their own boundaries. You just are. No matter how you dress, no matter what you say or anything, and I feel strongly about that.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

We think everyone but us need the unadulterated truth.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.