Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.

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

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

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

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