In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.