Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.