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

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

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.

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

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

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