For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.