All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.