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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

Matt Cartmill (b. 1943) American biological anthropologist
(Attributed)

If biologists don’t want to see the theory of evolution evicted from the public schools because of its religious content, they need to accept the limitations of science and stop trying to draw vast, cosmic conclusions from the plain facts of evolution. Humility isn’t just a cardinal virtue in Christian doctrine; it’s also a virtue in the practice of science.

Matt Cartmill (b. 1943) American biological anthropologist
Duke Magazine, “Contemplating a Cosmic Convergence” (Jul. 2000)
http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/alumni/dm29/cosmic.html