In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

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."

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

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