It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.