We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.
You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.
I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.
We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.