The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

This is how you play tennis without the net

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?