So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

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

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.