I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.