The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.