I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

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

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.