Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

The median isn't the message.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

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

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.