If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or someth….

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all..

In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of….

Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also name….

My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing o….

People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are o….

Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to a….

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that exten….

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will wri….

I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the qu….

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiogra….

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occ….

Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or t….

If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undes….

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant pr….

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can ans….

As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the United States have been listeni….

The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ….

The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the pr….

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen..

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases….