Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.