I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this business called religion.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

The Universe does not owe us meaning.

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