Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

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.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

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

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

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.