[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.