No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.