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.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

The median isn't the message.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.