History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.