Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love