Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

Is uniformitarianism necessary?

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.