The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)