most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Clearly, being in love makes you an idiot, " he muttered...

There are hidden opportunities for each person everywhere and in everything, every day!

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

My friends are the friends I've had forever, that's kept me very sane.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.