I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.