Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.