A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.

It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.