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.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

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

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

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

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."