When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

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

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.