Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 20 (p. 332).
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
Breaking the Spell (2006)
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone. But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
As quoted in the article 'Terry Gilliam interview for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'’ http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/joshua-jackson-on-marrying-diane-kruger-never-say-never-2012246 in The Telegraph (9 October 2009)
“Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.”
"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 65.
“Evolution is all about processes that almost never happen.”
Every birth in every lineage is a potential speciation event, but speciation almost never happens, not once in a million births. Mutation in DNA almost never happens — not once in a trillion copings — but evolution depends on it. Take the set of infrequent accidents — things that almost never happen — and sort them into the happy accidents, the neutral accidents, and the fatal accidents; amplify the effects of the happy accidents — which happens automatically when you have replication and competition — and you get evolution.
Breaking the Spell (2006)
“Evolution doesn’t work on creationists.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 18 (p. 221)
