No one-liner can ever be optimal.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

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

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

In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated.