Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.