Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person’s faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.