If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.