Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as this clear spiritual water, is poured into rusty vessels called human beings, and so sometimes the benevolent principles of faith can get distorted as positions are hardened.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation?

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.