The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.