Natalie Angier

What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically…

— Natalie Angier

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of…

— Natalie Angier

“Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life…

— Natalie Angier

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

— Natalie Angier

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

— Natalie Angier

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

— Natalie Angier

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes…

— Natalie Angier

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front…

— Natalie Angier

Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead…

— Natalie Angier

“Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop…

— Natalie Angier

“The clitoris not only applauds when a women flaunts her mastery; it will give a standing ovation. In the multiple orgasm, we…

— Natalie Angier

“The brain is an organ of aggression, and there are many roads to this Rome of imagined conquests — so many that…

— Natalie Angier

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

— Natalie Angier

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

— Natalie Angier

“I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems…

— Natalie Angier

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm…

— Natalie Angier

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

— Natalie Angier

Surveys show that surveys never lie.

— Natalie Angier

Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

— 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…

— Natalie Angier

“We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans…

— Natalie Angier

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

— Natalie Angier

Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides,…

— Natalie Angier

Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle…

— Natalie Angier

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I…

— Natalie Angier