"What kind of God can one infer from the sort of phenomena epitomized by the species on Darwin's Galapagos Islands? The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.… The God of the Galapagos is careless, wasteful, indifferent, almost diabolical. He is certainly not the sort of God to whom anyone would be inclined to pray."

"The incorporation of every indidual in a collective mechanism of production, would mean the renunciation for man himself of its independence and his dignity as a rational being. The results of such a …"

"Stephen Jay Gould is extremely bright, inventive. He thoroughly understands paleontology; he thoroughly understands evolutionary biology. He has performed an enormous service in getting people to thin…"

"The representation of a God, who from all eternity elected an inconsiderable part of mankind to eternal life, and reprobated the rest to eternal damnation...is a selfish and inferior notion of a God v…"

"My mind is as easy as the mind of any man in this world, as I am prepared to show before God and man."