Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.
I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties [Democrats and Republicans] have switched 180 degrees in 150 years. It just too confusing. Everybody claiming Lincoln as their own. And everybody should claim Lincoln as their own, because he represents all of us, and what he did basically provided the opportunities that all of us are enjoying today.
There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.