All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.