The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

You have to create emptiness to fill it with success.

The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand