I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.

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

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

There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, that's just redefinition of that which we find mysterious at the basis of the universe.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.