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

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

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."

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.