The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.

Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.