Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

You are not a story, your life is a story and youare the writer, write an inspiring one.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

Ive had Malcolm since I was 12.

I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.