The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

- Natalie Angier

[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - c…

- Natalie Angier

Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we were in college:…

- Natalie Angier

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may …

- Natalie Angier

evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions pro…

- Natalie Angier

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

- Natalie Angier

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its f…

- Natalie Angier

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

- Natalie Angier

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, t…

- Natalie Angier