I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding..

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think no….

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutiona….

Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is bett….

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forev….

Faith is not the opposite of reason..

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history..

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the res….

I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and so….

In the beginning was simplicity..

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or tre….

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Is….

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to b….

What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice them….

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see..

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers..

The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops around a major artery, then g….

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrot….

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression..

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear..

Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought a Nobel Laureat….