It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

[To my enemy:] Some are great, some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them! And then there's you.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.

God is looking for willing hearts... God has no favorites. You do not have to be special, but you have to be available.