What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

Je cherche à comprendre.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.

I'm proud of everything I've done.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.