If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.