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

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

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