God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

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

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.