If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here...to leave and go to a proper university.

I speak as a biologist. There aren't many absolutely clear distinctions in biology. Mostly what we have is a spectrum. But the male-female divide is exceptional in biology. It really is a true binary.

It's almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country, because you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic.

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligentsia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists, and probably the majority of the intelligentsia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it: the intelligentsia, unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs. To put it bluntly American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

I'm not clever enough to be a physicist. When asked about why he chose to become a biologist.

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

It takes intellectual courage to kick yourself out of your emotional incredulity and persuade yourself that there is no other rational choice.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun, but the full implications of Darwin's revolution have yet to be widely realized.

4 ways: Agnosticism, Relativism, Amorality, Morality. 1) I don't know. 2) Everybody is different. 3) Do whatever you can. 4) Do what you should.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

Either be silent or say something better than silence.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

We should provide in peace what we need in war.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. 

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

Do not take part in the council, unless you are called.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

What happens to one man may happen to all.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.