Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.