Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.