Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.

All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

Науката казва докажи ми и ще повярвам, а вярата казва повярвай и ще ти докажа!

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Embrace the Savior's warm invitation to come unto Him, one by one, and be perfected in Him.

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.