The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America..

People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they ma….

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to wh….

Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a ….

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction..

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front..

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager.….

Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible….

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the….

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astro….

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites….

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything..

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our mind….

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of the….

Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new ki….

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to pre….

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.

Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific wor….

If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right, but they believe differe….

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded….

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect….