Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would be unseemly for me to enter in except to suggest that he'd save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.