Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

The median isn't the message.

It's true that the level of scientific knowledge among adults is very low, but that's not because there isn't a natural interest. I think most kids are fascinated by the natural world. I've often said that if you could quantify the mental power involved in all the dinosaur names correctly known and correctly spelled by 5-year-old kids in America, you could move any mountain on earth.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

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

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.