This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Language changes very fast.