In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.