Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.

Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.

According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.

His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.

The 'incredible frog hotel'—really a local bed and breakfast—...the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Zionism, like other self-determination movements.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.