I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

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.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with other people's lives, stop repressing women, stop indoctrinating children, all that sort of thing. But I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.