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

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.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

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

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.