If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

The intelligent man is never bored.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.