You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

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

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.