The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

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

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.