It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

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

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.