I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

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.

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.