Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.

I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

The less you think, the more you believe.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.