It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

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

Beloved, it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible.

Bring a sword to school. Trust me-those girls will leave you alone.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.