What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

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

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

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

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

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