Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

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

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

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