“The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and descent.”

“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”

“Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat.”

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”

“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition… A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says."

No, it's not…”

“We are not in the time of separation; we are in the time of unification. There will not be an Armageddon or anything. Wars have come to an end from now on. They should forget about wars.”

“He opened the door that so many of us went through, the door of possibility, by saying anything an artist makes is art.”

“Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.”

“We cannot preclude the possibility that we are living through a political disruption that will in time bear comparison with the collapse of Communism a generation ago.”