Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.