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

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.

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.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.

On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

You want to know what scares people? Success.

Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.