Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.