Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

God helps those who help themselves.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I answer only to God.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

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.