37 Quotes by Eugenie Scott

As a legal strategy intelligent design is dead. It will be very difficult for any school district in the future to successfully survive a legal challenge. That doesn't mean intelligent design is dead as a very popular social movement. This is an idea that has got legs.

This decision is a major victory for science, and a major victory for science education.

This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next several years, ... We can predict this fight happening elsewhere.

This is actually, I think, key to understanding this whole controversy in this country: people think that because science restricts itself to a natural cause, it's therefore saying that God had nothing to do with it.

Americans react very positively to the fairness or equal-time kind of argument.

The faith community needs to step up to the plate.

If the parents win the upcoming case, it will definitely throw sand in the gears of the 'intelligent design' movement.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.