Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.