The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful ind….

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it..

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they sha….

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.

Evolution never looks to the future..

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims..

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world..

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely..

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music with….

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item….

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated..

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry..

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party..

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather th….

It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very hig….

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, an….

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil..

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction..

The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not ….

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer..

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion a….