Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

She didn't want me she wanted all of me. I didn't mind saying it. My girlfriend scared the crap out of me.

Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.

God will pardon me. It's his business.

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home run for you without a script.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?