When all is said and done$$$ scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

So that's the telephone? They ring$$$ and you run.

The American comedian Cathy Ladman observes that all religions are the same: religion is basically guilt$$$ with different holidays.

Of course they don't function as gills$$$ but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes$$$ with gills.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes.

I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.

The good ended happily$$$ and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.