Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.