....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.