Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.