Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion