Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made.

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.

In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

Life is sacred existence.

It's easy to offer advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.