Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.