Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.