[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life..

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default..

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition..

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe..

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't ….

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true..

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a ….

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs..

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not..

Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A universe with a cr….

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Musl….

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence..

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence..

Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism..

I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me..

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet m….

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in way….

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian..

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic pa….

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments..

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means e….