I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.