... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.