Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

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

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

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

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.