Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.