Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.