There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

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