I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.