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.

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

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

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.

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

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.