A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

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

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.