There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.