Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, when you have solved one mystery you uncover others, perhaps to inspire greater poetry

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.