I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.