If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

Whatever the truth is about the extent to which truth is respected in the future, it is going to depend partly on what we do. More important than making predictions is doing things which help bring about this respect.

The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.