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

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

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.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.