Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.