We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.