Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or plain bigotry.

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.