It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I’m the most off my game most often.

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.

Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way and let younger folks live more expediently.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.