You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

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

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

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.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem