Science Is Prediction, Not Explanation.

Earlier Theories ... Were Based On The Hypothesis That All The Matter In The Universe Was Created In One Big Bang At A Particular Time In The Remote Past. [coining The "big Bang" Expression.]

It Seems To Be A Characteristic Of All Great Work That It Creators Wear A Cloak Of Imprecision.

The Man Who Voyages Strange Seas Must Of Necessity Be A Little Unsure Of Himself. It Is The Man With The Flashy Air Of Knowing Everything, Who Is Always With It, That We Should Beware Of.

We Are Inescapably The Result Of A Long Heritage Of Learning, Adaptation, Mutation And Evolution, The Product Of A History Which Predates Our Birth As A Biological Species And Stretches Back Over Many Thousand Millennia... Going Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With Our Fellow Primates; And Going Still Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With All Other Living Creatures And Plants Down To The Simplest Microbe. The Further Back We Go, The Greater The Difference From External Appearances And Behavior Patterns Which We Observe Today.

I Don't See The Logic Of Rejecting Data Just Because They Seem Incredible ... The Establishment Defends Itself By Complicating Everything To The Point Of Incomprehensibility.