Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

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

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

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

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.