It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.

Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!