Feeling better is not actually being better.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.