The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.