Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

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

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.