For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.