No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

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.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If you don't feel like that in the beginning, it is not going to go well.

People have the "ships" that they love, and I think they love the show's ["Pretty Little Liars"] original relationship the most.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

how can a little thing be so annoying?

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]