Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information;... - Stephen Jay Gould

"Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency."

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

"Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency."

"We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists"