One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.