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.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

The less you think, the more you believe.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

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