I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

Change is to focus all your energy not in fixing the past but in recreating the future.

when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

I don't think it's ok to judge others and put people down. However, it should be ok to be concerned about the health of someone which could leader to major problems in their future.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.