The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

- George C. Williams

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited…

- George C. Williams

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

- George C. Williams

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

- George C. Williams

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

- George C. Williams

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

- George C. Williams

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much …

- George C. Williams

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerfu…

- George C. Williams

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

- George C. Williams