We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you. ☥

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.