Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we’ve made. That’s the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Facts are stubborn things.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

God’s first creature, which was light.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.