History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

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.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.