"Science packages theory, places it on a throne, and honors and protects it much like a queen. Engineers make the queen come down from the throne and scrub the floor. And if she doesn’t work, we fire her."

“Pure publication quantity today has become a meaningless metric. One can publish almost anything.”

“For the record, I don’t deserve this. But I have lower back pain and don’t deserve that either.”

“programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.”

“Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.”

“There is no foundational mathematical or physical reason the relationship between Pythagorean and tempered western music should exist. It just does. The rich flexibility of the tempered scale and the … bountiful archives of western music are a testimonial to this wonderful coincidence provided by nature.”

“Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.”