We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.