You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

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

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.