Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.

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