What you can imagine depends on what you know.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.