No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.