The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

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.

If I'm a CEO and I say, 'Misogyny will not be tolerated', that's a more powerful statement than 'It is my sincere hope and our intention to eradicate misogyny from this company'. Sometimes saying things in that more categorical form, has a real function. Although, if you dig beneath it, it is actually one of J.L. Austin's illocutionary acts; you're trying to make something happen rather than describing something already happened. The fact that it has the grammatical form of a description is fine.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.