If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of k… - Stephen Jay Gould

Jastrow and a few other astronomers have tried to find God in the universe by reading the big bang as the cosmological equivalent of Genesis. I confess that I have found it hard to take this argument seriously.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.