We pass through this world but once.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

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.