Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

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

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.