In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

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.

He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')

We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Try to be as honest as possible.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

You never know how much good you do.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.