Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.