“Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those...” — Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

We pass through this world but once.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.