Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

BewareAt war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease

Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.

Know the right moment.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.