The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.