Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

Σῶμα ὑγιές ἐν νοῦν ὑγιῆ ~ A healthy body, within a healthy mind

Why, play we, these games of mere men?

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.