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

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.

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.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.