As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?

DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.