If scientists don't play God, who will?

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

You would destroy yourselves but He would be your savior.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

Actions are more precious than words

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.