“Nuclear physicist and bioinformatician Dr. Hubert P. Yockey shows why Michael Behe and his ilk are wrong in his books, Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life (2005) and Information Theory and Molecular Biology (1992). Dr. Yockey’s publications, going back to the 1950s, were seminal in creating the field of bioinformatics. He also is the only scientist who has defined the distinction between living [matter] and non-living matter—his definition is fundamental to the scientific understanding of the origin of life.”

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the new order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly for fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”

“By 1982, the centenary of Darwin's death, Niles Eldredge and Steven J. Gould had catalyzed a loosely connected group of evolutionary biologists unhappy with the New Synthesis to unleash a cascade of criticisms and proposals. Emboldened by this display of the scientific community at its meritocratic best, Ed Wiley and I entered the fray. The day we finished proofreading Evolution as Entropy [1986], David Hull presciently warned us the fun was over. Soon, I received an envelope from a friend who had seen a manuscript on a colleague's desk. Such privileged material is rarely copied and forwarded. My friend wrote, "I think you and Ed should know what you're up against." The privately circulated manuscript was authored by three academics at the University of California-Berkeley. Ed and I were stunned by its vicious tone. Why the rhetorical heat?”

— Daniel Brooks (2011) [4]

“After my book on thermodynamics [Thermostatics and Thermodynamics: an Introduction to Energy, Information and States of Matter, 1961] appeared I sat back and waited for a call from the Nobel Committee. They never wrote. But other people did write and it was not at all what I wanted to hear. My attempts at getting engineering professors to adopt the new way to look at thermodynamics was a completed failure. Not only that, but I was attacked as someone who had taken intellectual shortcuts.”

— Myron Tribus, “A Tribute to Edwin T. Jaynes” (1998) [5]

“Professor Yockey has ruled out all materialistic explanations. If so, then a nonmaterialistic explanation may be in order. If life cannot come from non-life unaided, then why not infer that it came from life of a designer that brought it into being?”

“The first thing I want noted about my father is that he is not in any way, shape or form a Creationist. He does not support intelligent design. He supports Darwin’s theory of evolution and points out that it is one of the best-supported theories in science. It is absolutely crazy to assert that my father is a creationist because he quotes the Bible in his scientific publications. He quotes Greek and Roman myths considerably more frequently than the Bible, yet no one has used that as evidence that he is a pagan, or Dionysian or Apollonian.”