The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

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

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

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

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

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or any honest intellectual inquiry.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.