Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man."

"The Tallest Tale", p. 318 - Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)