Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

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

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world