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.

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

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 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

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

A true conservative is on the side of science.