Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.

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

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

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

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.