The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science..

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant..

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons..

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not..

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance..

Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejecti….

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know..

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be..

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith..

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method..

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable bod….

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the be….

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulth….

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and l….

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedr….

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning..

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life l….

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena..

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of ….

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skept….

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training..