One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.