Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

We pass through this world but once.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

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.