We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

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

The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.