There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.