The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

We pass through this world but once.