Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

There is a proud modesty in merit.

When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.

The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.