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.

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.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

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

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.