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

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.

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.

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

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

Is typecasting really a problem?

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.