Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.

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.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.