A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.