Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information it is a creative human activity.

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.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

My imagination is a twisted place.

I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.