Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

All life is problem solving

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

We do not know. We can only guess.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.