The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

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

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.

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

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.

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

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