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

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

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

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

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

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.