What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

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 why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.