If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

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

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.