Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

27. TreesI shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree.

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life.